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

[…] have you no Kindness for your poor children ⟨p. 117⟩'Tis by your means, that they are now born defiled, depraved, horribly polluted, with Original Sin, and fearfully perishing under the wrath and curse of God; and what amends will you make 'em, for this infinite wrong? It was the law for a man that had wounded another, in Exod. 21. 19. He shall cause him to be throughly healed. And will you do nothing towards healing those prodigious wounds, which your Falls have caused your Children to lie bleeding under? Your poor Children, can you endure to see them starving, burning, dying before your Eyes? but thus they are till by Conversion they are become gracious little Children. We read in Lam. 4. 3. Even the Sea-monsters draw out the Breasts, they give suck to their young ones. If you will do nothing for the Souls of your poor Children, you are worse than the cruellest Sea-monsters in the world.

〈…〉 have you no Kindness for your poor children ⟨p. 117⟩'Tis by your means, that they are now born defiled, depraved, horribly polluted, with Original Sin, and fearfully perishing under the wrath and curse of God; and what amends will you make 'em, for this infinite wrong? It was the law for a man that had wounded another, in Exod. 21. 19. He shall cause him to be throughly healed. And will you do nothing towards healing those prodigious wounds, which your Falls have caused your Children to lie bleeding under? Your poor Children, can you endure to see them starving, burning, dying before your Eyes? but thus they are till by Conversion they are become gracious little Children. We read in Lam. 4. 3. Even the Sea-monsters draw out the Breasts, they give suck to their young ones. If you will do nothing for the Souls of your poor Children, you are worse than the cruellest Sea-monsters in the world.