An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

THE Curse of God is here threatened to pursue them, and over-take them, though they escaped the Curse that others are under.

THE Curse of God is here threatned to pursue them, and over-take them, though they escaped the Curse that others are under.

Many think that when they have escaped some Judgment that hath come upon some others,¹ then they are safe enough and all is well; But thy preservation from some Judgment that hath struck others, may be thy reservation to greater Judgments that God intends for thee afterwards.

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2. It is a judgment to be deprived of children in the womb,¹ in the birth, but when you have endured much pain in bearing and bringing forth your children, much labour and trouble in bringing up your children, when many a thoughtful care in the education of them, much sorrow and grief they have cost you, and now when they come to be hopeful, almost to mens and women's estate, and you think to have comfort in them, now for God to take them away, this is very sad unto parents, it goes exceeding much unto their hearts to be bereaved then; yet such things as these have befallen many heretofore; and Parents though the condition must be acknowledged very sad, yet they must submit to Gods hand in this. Perhaps some of you have in the breeding of your children endured much, and through many difficulties they have been brought till they have grown up to be almost at mens and women's estates, and perhaps they have been towardly and hopeful, you had hoped to have had them to have been the staff of your age, and yet God suddenly hath made them fly away like a bird, perhaps be drowned, perhaps some other way,