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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
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.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. A presumption or supposition of a deep and desperate conspiracy▪ in which we may consider.
I. The Conspirators, who are not plainly named, but are tacitly Characterized▪ and we are to suppose them to be the deepest heads and profoundest Counsellors in the World: Men of Wisdom, Understand and Counsel. Devils also may, without force to the Text be comprehended under them, •hose perspicacious spirits, who are of a vast intelligence and long experience.
I. The Conspirators, who are not plainly named, but are tacitly Characterized▪ and we are to suppose them to be the deepest heads and profoundest Counsellors in the World: Men of Wisdom, Understand and Counsel. Devils also may, without force to the Text be comprehended under them, •hose perspicatious spirits, who are of a vast intelligence and long experience.
II. The quality of the Conspiracy, intimated to be made with the maturest deliberation which the farthest reach of the most politic created understanding could attain unto. Whither so many several things be aimed at in the divers expressions of our Text, as by wisdom, a natural ⟨p. 201⟩callidity, and excellent ability to contrive means most suitable to the fairest attainment of our end; by understanding, an experimental knowledge gathered by Observation and History, built upon, and further accomplishing of that natural sagacity; and by counsel an improving of both the former by deepest study and consultation, contriving how they may with best security of the success accommodate means to their design: or whither by the accumulation of so many words be only intended to set forth the height of mens wit and industry in this plot, is not much material: ther way, we are to suppose these Conspirators to have done their best, and made the conjrt on as strong and secure as their combined wits can possibly devise.