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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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3. God's Almighty Power is able to break in pieces and forcibly to bear down all the purposes and plots that are against him. God hath a mighty arm, and can by plain force in the open field make a conquest, upon, and lead in Triumph all those that rise up against him.. His Sword can cut their Gordian knots in pieces, and put them from all their guards; he can trouble ⟨p. 216⟩the hosts of the Egyptians, and knock off their Chariot wheels: He can shut up the womb of carnal counsels, and make them go in travel with them all their days, and never bring forth, Psal. 21.11. They imagine a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. He can make all their designs miscarry, Psal. 7.14. He hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. Nay, it is with him to make their own contrivances the means of their own destruction, vers. 15. He hath made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he hath made. Haman shall build a gallows to hang himself upon. If he pleaseth they shall turn their swords against themselves, and sheath them in each others bowels, so shall the earth help the Woman. He can when he will shrink up Jeroboam's arm, when stretched forth against his Prophet: If he think meet he can dispirit the whole World, and make their hearts utterly to fail them; he can put them into an amazing fright where there is no cause at all of fear: A rumour shall bring Sennacherib's great and victorious army to an Halt, and send them home again faster than they came: A noise of Chariots and Horse-men shall break up the Syrians Camp, and put them to the run: And there are many such things as these with him.
3. God's Almighty Power is able to break in pieces and forcibly to bear down all the purposes and plots that are against him. God hath a mighty arm, and can by plain force in the open field make a conquest, upon, and lead in Triumph all those that rise up against him.. His Sword can cut their Gordian knots in pieces, and put them from all their guards; he can trouble ⟨p. 216⟩the hosts of the Egyptians, and knock off their Chariot wheels: He can shut up the womb of carnal counsels, and make them go in travel with them all their dayes, and never bring forth,