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As in a Forrest there are more young sprouts then old trees, in a garden more young slips then old roots, in the world more young children then old men. In Nineveh there were 120000 Infants, but there was not such a number of old men.¹ By how much things are perfect, by so much they are the fewer. Look amongst other creatures, those ⟨p. 32⟩that are of a bigger bulk are of a lesser number, as in the sea there are more young and little fish then great whales; on the earth the smallest things are innumerable; ²in the air there are more swarms of flies, then flocks of birds; so in the Church of God there are more that are young and weak Converts then old Christians. It is with most Christians as it was with Jonathans signal arrows, which he shot to warn David by,³ of which two fell short, and but one beyond the mark:—So where one Christian shoots home to the mark of the price of the high calling in Christ Jesus, there are many fall short.

As in a Forrest there are more young sprouts then old trees, in a garden more young slips then old roots, in the world more young children then old men. In Niniveh there were 120000 Infants, but there was not such a number of old men.¹ By how much things are perfect, by so much they are the fewer. Look amongst other creatures, those ⟨p. 32⟩that are of a bigger bulk are of a lesser number, as in the sea there are more young and little fish then great whales; on the earth the smallest things are innumerable; ²in the aire there are more swarms of flies, then flocks of birds; so in the Church of God there are more that are young and weak Converts then old Christians. It is with most Christians as it was with Jonathans signal arrows, which he shot to warn David by,³