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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.
2. We have the disappointing, defeating, and total routing of this treacherous plot, intimated in that expression, there is none: Which negative particle is three times inculcated in the Original ⟨p. 103⟩Text; insinuating that it is a truth, not dark and dubious, but notorious.
2. We have the disappointing, defeating, and total routing of this treacherous plot, intimated in that expression, there is none: Which negative particle is three times inculcated in the Original ⟨p. 103⟩Text; insinuatiug that it is a truth, not dark and dubious, but notorious.
We are not to interpret the wise man as if he intended to assert that there were no such designs at all, as though he denied the being of such a thing, that cannot be his meaning, the Scripture often asserts the quite contrary, and the Records of the Church tell us, and experience hath proved it too true, that in all ages, there have been such conclaves as these, bandying against the Lord and his anointed. His true intention therefore is, that all such undertakings are wholly successless; that they study and plot […] purpose; that they are so fru[…] •pointed that they become as if they […]. God enjoys himself in as much […] tranquillity, and is as far from being […] by them, as if there had been none at all▪ •hey do not so much as disturb him.
We are not to interpret the wise man as if he intended to assert that there were no such designs at all, as though he denied the being of such a thing, that cannot be his meaning, the Scripture often asserts the quite contrary, and the Records of the Church tell us, and experience hath proved it too true, that in all ages, there have been such conclaves as these, bandying against the Lord and his anointed. His true intention therefore is, that all such undertakings are wholly succesless; that they study and plot purpose; that they are so fru pointed that they become as if they . God enjoyes himself in as much tranquillity, and is as far from being by them, as if there had been none at all hey do not so much as disturb him.