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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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That Isa. 29.15. Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord. God hears every word, takes notice of every conclusion: All stands in the light of his countenance, so that he cannot be surprised, or set upon at unawares, and so taken unprovided.
That Isa. 29.15. Wo to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord. God hears every word, takes notice of every conclusion: All stands in the light of his countenance, so that he cannot be surprized, or set upon at unawares, and so taken unprovided.
2. Divine wisdom is able with greatest ease to confound all the wisdom and policy of men, the Apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1.25. That the foolishness of God is wiser than men. i. e. Those things which men repute foolish and injudicious. The little wit of the ablest men cannot tie a knot so curiously, but infinite wisdom can untie it again. He can befool men in their profoundest counsel, baffle them in their Master-plots, Isa. 44.25. That turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish. There shall not be a more ready, ⟨p. 215⟩and rational way to their utter confusion, than that which they have contrived for their prosperity, Psal. 64.8. He can divide them in their counsels; this David prays for, Psal. 55.9. Divide their tongues. They shall fall out and •mpede one another from acting any thing, thus God saved the life of Paul, by dividing the minds of the company,