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

2. The Predicate, They are taken away from the evil to come. Where observe,

1. The thing it self which is predicated of them, They are taken away: The word here ⟨p. 148⟩used doth primarily signify to congregate, o• gather together; and some there be who think it to be a Metaphor borrowed from a Shepherd, who, when he foresees a Storm coming, thereupon gathers his Sheep unto a place of safety, noting the happiness of the Righteous in their Death, they are gathered to the great Assembly •• the first-born.

1. The thing it self which is predicated of them, They are taken away: The word here ⟨p. 148⟩used doth primarily signifie to congregate, o• gather together; and some there be who think it to be a Metaphor borrowed from a Shepherd, who, when he foresees a Storm coming, thereupon gathers his Sheep unto a place of safety, noting the happiness of the Righteous in their Death, they are gathered to the great Assembly •• the first-born.

2. The end of their Being thus gathered, […] the evil to come: in the Hebrew it is, From […]: i. e. From that evil which is […] (as it were) stares them in the […] words of our Text are like a folded […] looks pleasantly on the one side, […] the other: If we consider […] the Righteous themselves […] speak their great felicity in the […] of their dying, in that they are taken from the evil to come that it may not overtake them; if we note the Aspect they have to the ungodly generation which these once lived among, they speak their great unhappiness in the loss of the Righteous; they are taken from the evil that it may come upon the World. Hence,