The child's portion

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 in vain and to no purpose; that they are so frustrated and disappointed that they become as if they had never been. God enjoys himself in as much security and tranquillity, and is as far from being endangered by them, as if there had been none at all: They 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 succes•ess; that they study and plot in vain and to no purpose; that they are so frustrated and disappointed that they become as if they had never been. God enjoyes himself in as much security and tranquillity, and is as far from being endangered by them, as if there had been none at all: They do not so much as disturb him.

Hence,

Doct. The strongest Conspiracies, and most subtle combinations against Gods purposes, promises and People, shall be altogether ineffectual.