Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Here was the consideration that produced the little Discourse, which I now put into the hands of Children, and especially of those Children which are the Lambs; that I have received a special charge from the Lord Jesus Christ about the Feeding of. Our Saviour, in a certain place; hath intimated, That His little Children have the Angels of Heaven marvellously concerned about them; be sure those Ministers forget the denomination of Angels put upon us in the Oracles of God, that have not their very hearts within them working and yearning towards the Little Children that are under the watch of their Ministry. For my own part, I must be impatient until I see the little children here so well instructed, that a Papist; or which is much what one, a Quaker, shall be as unable to seduce them, as the Jesuits were to corrupt the well educated Children of the Waldenses when they were sent among them; and until I see also the Little Children here as forward in all Piety, as the Well-informed Children of the Ancient Jews were in ⟨p. 92⟩the Law of Moses, the six hundred and thirteen Precepts whereof they had by heart before they were thirteen years of Age.

Here was the consideration that produced the little Discourse, which I now put into the hands of Children, and especially of those Children which are the Lambs; that I have received a special charge from the Lord Jesus Christ about the Feeding of. Our Saviour, in a certain place; hath intimated, That His little Children have the Angels of Heaven marvelously concerned about them; be sure those Mintsters forget the denomination of Angels put upon us in the Oracles of God, that have not their very hearts within them working and yerning towards the Little Children that are under the watch of their Ministry. For my own part, I must be impatient until I see the little children here so well instructed, that a Papist; or which is much what one, a Quaker, shall be as unable to seduce them, as the Jesuits were to corrupt the well educated Children• of the Waldenses when they were sent among them; and until I see also the Little Children here as forward in all Piety, as the Wellinformed Children of the Ancient Jews were in ⟨p. 92⟩the Law of Moses, the six hundred and thirteen Precepts whereof they had by heart before they were thirteen years of Age.