A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

2 How was this just, to punish the Infants and Innocents for the sins of their •••ents? Doth not God say,ⁱ The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father? ••th not he not make this to the enraged Prophet, an argument of sparing Nineveh; […] many thousand little ones,^k That cannot discern between their right hand and ••r left? That cannot speak, cannot help themselves; that stick to their mothers ⟨p. 544⟩breasts, as apples to the tree; if you pluck them away, they perish. Is this […] babes welcome into the world, the milk to feed them; when they cry, to quiet the• with death? Is this the nursing of their tender and ungrown limbs, to wrap the• up in waves of swaddling clouts, and to rock them asleep with pitiless destruction? Whose ears can endure the lamentable and confused cry of so many infants, […] not cry for company? The Midwives of Egypt had more mercy; Ph••••• daughter was moved to take up weeping Moses. It is the property of a cruel Na•• on,^l Not to show favour to the little ones. When the Prophet foretold Hazael of […] cruelty,^m in dashing infants against the stones; he asked, if he thought him a D••• so brutish he held such a villain: men have more years and sins, but what […] infants done? The Scripture hath many circumlocutions of their ignorance […] simplicity.ⁿ God gave a special charge concerning them, in the bloodiest vic•••y of war, unless for some nations which he had accursed. Christ took them […] his arms, blessed them, and placed one in the midst; proposing them as pa for the imitation of riper years. Whose eyes can behold the shrinking of their […] members at every pull of grief, their limbs sprawling on the ground, their […] scorched with heat, as a scroll of parchment, or sinking on the waters, without per