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3. Young ones have not so resisted him as others have done. Children have Original Sin in them, as soon as they live, and begin to discover it as soon as they are capable: but God hath taken the Children of his Servants into Covenant with him, and they have not so notoriously rejected his Covenant as those have done, who withstood him in youth, and addicted themselves to follow folly and vanity.

3. Young ones have not so resisted him as others have done. Children have Original Sin in them, as soon as they live, and begin to discover it as soon as they are capable: but God hath taken the Children of his Servants into Covenant with him, and they have not so notoriously rejected his Covenant as those have done, who withstoold him in youth, and addicted themselves to follow folly and vanity.

4. Their hearts are usually more tender and easy to be wrought upon. Not but that natural hardness born with us requires Gods Almighty power to take it away, in the tenderest Child that is. But there is a contracted obstinacy, which grows on persons by custom, which Children do not presently arrive at; but are more tractable, readier to receive the impressions of Counsels given them. And this is the reason why we are bidden to begin early with them in, Prov. 22. 6.

4. Their hearts are usually more tender and easy to be wrought upon. Not but that natural hardness born with us requires Gods Almighty power to take it away, in the tenderest Child that is. But there is a contracted obstinacy, which grows on persons by custom, which Children do not presently arrive at; but are more tractible, readier to receive the impressions of Counsels given them. And this is the reason why we are bidden to begin early with them in, Prov. 22. 6.