The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

1. A description of the great incogitancy of men under such awful Providences, none considering; the word signifies inwardly and in the mind to ponder, and distinctly to Judge of a thing: It signifies also, to know, and hence some read it, no man knows, others, no man ponders, or weighs in his mind and thoughts, which is the same with considering.

1. A discription of the great incogitancy of men under such awful Providences, none considering; the word signifies inwardly and in the mind to ponder, and distinctly to Judge of a thing: It signifies also, to know, and hence some read it, no man knows, others, no man ponders, or weighs in his mind and thoughts, which is the same with considering.

2. The subject matter about which this inco• gitancy is declared or expressed: Which is sure and evident conclusion that followed from the death of the Godly, viz. That the Righteous is taken from the evil to come. Which conclusion, ⟨p. 147⟩being of it self a full proposition, and also here insinuated as a matter worthy of deep meditation, may be the subject of our present discourse. In which Conclusion observe,

1. The subject, the Righteous, or the Just man: Which is not to be understood in a Legal sense, for one that is in all parts complete, answering the Moral Law in every point, for so the assertion were of no comfort at all, since among Adam's Progeny descending from him by natural Generation, there is no such, Eccl. 7. […] There is not a Just Man upon Earth, that doth […] and sinneth not,