All Plots against God and his People Detected and Defeated, as it was delivered in a SERMON At a FAST kept by the first gathered Church in BOSTON, Jan. 25. 1682.

All Plots against God and his People Detected and Defeated, as it was delivered in a SERMON At a FAST kept by the first gathered Church in BOSTON, Jan. 25. 1682.

Prov. 21. 30. There is no Wisdom, nor Understanding, nor Counsel against the Lord.

The vulgar Plea, that Proverbs are Independent sentences, usually so placed as to stand entirely by themselves without any co-herence with the Context, may suffice me from looking beyond the Text it self for an Analysis. The nature of Proverbs being a contraction of large a weighty ⟨p. 200⟩truths into a little room, and binding them up as so many portable Jewels, for the better accommodation of the Christian Pilgrim in his Journey, challengeth our more diligent attention to them. The words before us are a choice Elixir, or precious Cordial, extracted on purpose to comfort the hearts of the People of God, and keep them from fainting, when they see all the wit in the World, and the deepest politicians of earth and hell gathered into a combination against them.

THe vulgar Plea, that Proverbs are Independent sentences, usually so placed as to stand intirely by themselves without any co-herence with the Context, may suffice me from looking beyond the Text it self for an Analysis. The nature of Proverbs being a contraction of large a weighty ⟨p. 200⟩truths into a little room, and binding them up as so many portable Jewels, for the better accommodation of the Christian Pilgrim in his Journey, challengeth our more diligent attention to them. The words before us are a choise Elixir, or precious Cordial, extracted on purpose to comfort the hearts of the People of God, and keep them from fainting, when they see all the wit in the World, and the deepest polititions of earth and hell gathered into a combination against them.