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

First, There are some little Children, that have and own, God, for their Father. Such a Child might Samuel be; of whom we find in I Sam. 3. 1. that while he was a Child, he Ministered unto the Lord; he kept waiting on God, and serving of God, in his House continually; and had a most intimate Communion with him there. Such a Child might also David be; who was able to say in Psal. 22. 9. Thou didst make me Hope when I was upon my Mothers Breasts; thou art my God from […] Mothers Belly; he speaks, as if before he had […] weaned, there had been some hope and some fau•• on God, beginning to dawn in his little Soul. And such a Child seems Timothy to have been […] unto whom 'twas said in 2 Tim. 3. 15. From […] Child thou hast known the Scriptures; he was in […] very Infancy acquainted with the mind of the great God. The Father of Origen took him to be such a Child, when he would kiss the breast of the lovely youth while he lay asleep, as a young Temple to the Eternal Spirit of God. Some little Children have been so devoted unto God, as to prove the most Eminent Witnesses and Confessors ⟨p. 108⟩for him; the bloody Papists butchered four hundred such precious Infants at once among the Waldenses long ago. When the Noble Ro••anus was Martyred, in one of the Primitive Persecutions, a little Child but seven years old, bravely suffered with him, for asserting the Christian Religion, which (said the child, unto his furious Persecutors) I learnt of my christian Mother, with whose Milk I sucked it in. Yea, many children then accompanied their courageous Parents, in receiving the Crown of Martyrdom. And certainly, those were very well disposed little children, who in the horrible Marian Days, came about the Martyr Lawrence; as he was dying in the flames, & •ry'd out, Lord, strengthen thy servant & keep thy promise! Lord, strengthen thy servant, and keep thy Promise.

First, There are some little Children, that have and own, God, for their Father. Such a Child might Samuel be; of whom we find in