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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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4 The ill Omen that there is in the death of such men, to the World: it is a po••ent, and dismal presage to them that are left behind, that evil is coming. Which last Particular, and Clause in the first Verse, consists of two parts, viz.
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 description of the great incogitancy of men under such awful Provi•ences, 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 incogitancy is declared or expressed: Which is a 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,