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The child's portion
The child's portion: or The unseen glory of the children of God, asserted, and proved: together with several other sermons occasionally preached, and now published. / By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston, New-England. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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1. Seek to overthrow his purposes, & decrees, and by their own counsels to disannul his, hoping to establish them, notwithstanding he hath otherwise determined. Thus did Joseph's brethren seek all courses to frustrate the counsel of God which he had signified, about the advancement of their brother.
1. Seek to overthrow his purposes, & decrees, and by their own counsels to disanul his, hoping to establish them, notwithstanding he hath otherwise determined. Thus did Joseph's brethren seek all courses to frustrate the counsel of God which he had signified, about the advancment of their brother.
2. Labour to nullify his promises, and make his word, by which he hath engaged himself to his People, to fall to the ground; seeking to throw blocks in the way of his providence, which may give check to his procedure to performance: Thus Saul sought by all means to hinder David from receiving the promised Crown.
2. Labour to nullifie his promises, and make his word, by which he hath engaged himself to his People, to fall to the ground; seeking to throw blocks in the way of his providence, which may give check to his procedure to performance: Thus Saul sought by all means to hinder David from receiving the promised Crown.
3. Contrive how they may subvert, and root the true Religion out of the World, by destroying the sincere fearers of God, and suppressing the true profession of his Name: As Sanballa & Tobijah did against the Jews, when they were weak and feeble.