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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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In the Words are two things observable:
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, those 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, those 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