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

I'll bereave them when they bring them up, (the words are [not a man,] and left is not in the Original) that they be not men. And sometimes God lets the children of men and women live,¹ and yet they never come to be men, but strikes them in their understandings that they are bereaved of them so far that they never come to be men. I remember it's reported of Sr Thomas Moore that his wife was mightily desirous of a Boy,² (that was her word) and she had one that proved a fool, and saith her husband to her, You were never quiet till you had a boy, and now you have one that be all his life a Boy.

I'le bereave them when they bring them up, (the words are [not a man,] and left is not in the Original) that they be not men. And sometimes God lets the children of men and women live,¹ and yet they never come to be men, but strikes them in their understandings that they are bereaved of them so far that they never come to be men. I remember it's reported of Sr Thomas Moore that his wife was mightilie desirous of a Boy,² (that was her word) and she had one that proved a fool, and saith her husband to her, You were never quiet till you had a boy, and now you have one that be all his life a Boy.