Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers

And methinks this should be mentioned, not only for her, and their sakes, but to comfort all those that either have had, or yet may have their children thus suffer for righteousness. None of these things (as shall be further showed anon) happen without the determinate counsel of God. He has ordered the sufferings of little children as well as that of persons more in years. And 'tis easy to think that God can as well foresee which of his elect shall suffer by violent hands in their Infancy, ⟨p. 79⟩as which of them shall then die a natural death. He has Saints small in age as well as in esteem or otherwise: and sometimes the least member of the body suffereth violence, as well as the head or other chief parts.

And methinks this should be mentioned, not only for her, and their sakes, but to comfort all those that either have had, or yet may have their children thus suffer for righteousness. None of these things (as shall be further shewed anon) happen without the determinate counsel of God. He has ordered the sufferings of little children as well as that of persons more in years. And 'tis easie to think that God can as well foresee which of his elect shall suffer by violent hands in their Infancy, ⟨p. 79⟩as which of them shall then die a natural death. He has Saints small in age as well as in esteem or otherwise: and sometimes the least member of the body suffereth violence, as well as the head or other chief parts.

And although I desire not to see these days again, yet me thinks it will please me to see those little ones that thus have already suffered for Jesus, to stand in their white Robes, with the elders of the people, before the throne to sing unto the Lamb.