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Truly they were a pair of lovely Babes; Babes in Age, though men in knowledge and understanding; of whom we may (in their Capacity) sing as David once in his Funeral Elegies of Saul and Jonathan,

Truly they were a pair of lovely Babes; Babes in Age, though men in knowledg and understanding; of whom we may (in their Capacity) sing as David once in his Funeral Elegies of Saul and Jonathan,

They were pleasant in their lives, in their death they were not divided.

Their lives indeed were short; so it seemed good to the Divine Wisdom, after He had showed two such excellent pieces in the Light for a while; timely to lay them up amongst his Jewels, lest they should receive hurt or stain from a present evil world. But although their lives were short, yet verily they were precious, such, as allowing them this Abatement, ⟨image 8⟩that they were Children; neither Parents nor Standers-by could rationally have wished they had been otherwise then they were. And though there were some distance of years, yet there was the greatest parity of Persons observed between them, that though they were but the Brother's and Sister's Sons, you could not (had they been together) have distinguished them from natural Brethren, or Tins (rather) of the same Birth.

Their lives indeed were short; so it seemed good to the Divine Wisdome, after He had shewed two such excellent pieces in the Light for a while; timely to lay them up amongst his Jewels, lest they should receive hurt or stain from a present evil world. But although their lives were short, yet verily they were precious, such, as allowing them this Abatement, ⟨image 8⟩