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Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…
Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ... To which may be added, a short scriptural catechism, accommodated unto their capacities. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1690
THE LITTLE CHILDS LESSON. › DOCTRINE. › Proposition 3: Proposition III.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Once more, 'tis their privilege, that God makes the provision of a Father for them. Children ⟨p. 115⟩shall not want, so long as they have a Living and a Tender Father, able to look after them. But God will provide for gracious little Children, after a manner which Eye has not seen, Ear has not heard, and heart has not conceived. We are told in Psal. 34. 10. They that fear the Lord, shall not want any good thing. These belong to the Family of the Almighty God; and, Their Heavenly Father knows what things they have need of. He will furnish them with all suitable mercies both Temporal and Eternal.
Once more, 'tis their priviledge, that God makes the provision of a Father for them. Children ⟨p. 115⟩shall not want, so long as they have a Living and a Tender Father, able to look after them. But God will provide for gracious little Children, after a manner which Eye has not seen, Ear has not heard, and heart has not conceived. We are told in Psal. 34. 10. They that fear the Lord, shall not want any good thing. These belong to the Family of the Almighty God; and, Their Heavenly Father knows what things they have need of. He will furnish them with all suitable mercies both Temporal and Eternal.
Finally, 'Tis their privilege, that when they ma•e any allowable prayers, God like a Father will hear them all. If Children go to a Father for any convenient thing, 'tis but, Ask and Have; much more is the blessed Access and Success which gracious little Children have in their Supplications to the Lord. Of their prayer, we may say as in Prov. 15. 8. 'Tis his Delight. God propounds to them, Children, what do you want? What would you have? Children, when shall I do for you? And he delights to see them, spreading their Ails before him. Tho' their prayers are but like the Chatterings and Lispings, of Children, yet the Lord says concerning them, Let me hear thy voice, for it is sweet; their prayers make a most Heavenly Melody in the Ears of the Eternal God.