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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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Pro. 10. God hath many wonderful and glorious ways to ruinate all the counsels that are laid against him. The time would fail to instance in particular […] been observed on this account. Let it […] to propose some general Conclusions.
Pro. 10. God hath many wonderful and glorious wayes to ruinate all the counsels that are laid against him. The time would fail to instance in particular 〈…〉 been observed on this account. Let it 〈…〉 to propose some general Conclusions.
1. God seeth and observeth all the plottings and consultings w•ich are used against him. Men think they act very secretly, and suppose they shall hide their counsel not from man only, but from God too, Psal. 64.5. They say, who shall see th••? 94.7. They say, the Lord shall not see. But alas, those Omniscient eyes of God, which are as flames of fire, are no ways obscured by the thickest darkness, Psal. 139.12. The darkness hideth not from thee. There is no cover or vault to be found which is out of the continual view of his eye.
1. God seeth and observeth all the plottings and consultings w•ich are used against him. Men think they act very secretly, and suppose they shall hide their counsel not from man only, but from God too, Psal. 64.5. They say, who shall see th••? 94.7. They say, the Lord shall not see. But alas, those Omniscient eyes of God, which are as flames of fire, are no wayes obscured by the thickest darkness,