no Book !I ®intftrat!on of, antt Chap.2.Seel:.2. ------------------------~------------~--------------~------- her chil,~s b~half : Or if [-J,,~ar and I{hmael were noiElcd: when JacJb bldfed the Geo.48" ' · . two Ions of J ojiph, be fa id, The A11gel w!Jichredeemed mefrom all ev!l, bitfr (or keep) the luds. Many rhiwk this was the great Angd ofthe Covenant to whom Jacob ppyed for a bldfing on J o{ephs fons, and the rather becaufe he is hid to red.cm him from aU c il, which is properly pteuliar to Jefus Chrift; but others fay, that this form of prayer was only an interpretative kind ofimploration, that God would bids, or kcev Jnjiphs fans by ht> Ang,els : And for that of Kedecmzng J tf thrs was fpoken ofEternal Redemption, it were indeed peculiar to Chrift, bui Jacob (faith a late Writer) ffrea)(ss here of redemption a11d deliverances from temporal evils, which iscoofoffid to be a m;in office ofA>~gcls. And Chr)'foflome, Bajil, 1\iviur, Mcrceri~<t (as the wies them ) quote this very place f~r the deputation ol Angel,. Dingley of Ange!s SECT. · IT. Oftb£mJttncr of Angel mjH£tirJti;uat tb:~t time BUt how do the Angels minifier to us in our Childhood I I anfwer.~; t . Thty keepus from evrl: Were it nor fG into how many dangers fhou\d we tall ? lcdct d, a wonder it is, that moll children are not dittit;ured, a>1d· lamed with bruifcs ~ nd tearful Rlifcarriages, with cutting and burning themfe\ves, as hundreds and thoufands of opportunities ar~olfered, but rhat Angels are very dili!IC!lt tok~cprhem out of hannes way : Whm Father and Mother forfJk! me ( faith David ) then will the Lrrd takJ me '" : When parents ore without natural aflcdion, when Nurfes are carelefs, and children of rdlleG, llrrring , and climbing difpolirio 11 s , then dotl1 the Guardianfhip of Angels efpeci.1lly appear. To tni< purpofe is Chwmitint cited r/mnnit. in bythe afordaid Author, faying,_ 'Jhat Infarlti arrobno>ioJ<Jto f~ucl andfo many d~;tgerr, h E that no anxmy•f Parems, ordli<gcnceof jervams cail {ecuretbc wzthout the tuwon of G~~{. j~"::,~d< Anee/J. And Gerfon oblcrvcs the like, Whence irit ( faith he that little children are Angtlis. cmfirved from Jo many peril! oftheir infancy, as fire, waterf allr[trjfvc:llion, but by the agency Dy~onMi· elladand,the Dragon. . of Angclr 1 2 • They keep ~sin health: Some fay, that much Phy!ick O>ould cot be aJminifired to irrfants, it is not fafc to be too much tzmpering with fuch tender rhinJiS, and I fuppole there h kfs need , in that /1 ng~ls thtmldvcs are iAfiead , f Phy)ltians to loch weak Patients. lt is M. D)k,ts layiDg Angclr bdp torcm,ve difiafir and cvilr,as the devil hdps to bring them"' ut : And to that purpole they may have an hand in the ufe of tueh m<ans a~ are ior our bcdilr health. Angels are rhc Rockers (faith rhc fame Author) of bab-es and fucklings, their invrt ble hands are doing for them, when we little think ofany futh matter. lr may be fome.are fick, and yet recover, arrd we attribute it tot/lis or that mcam, when indeed the infirumellt was an heave!Jiy An. · gel. 'Certainly ( faid our divine Scmca) there are tmny thouland events wherein_ Bifhop H•ll of' common ey<es t<c nothin!l but nature, which ytt are tlfu~ted by the miniflra~io11 ot o!tod and An· ' APgcls : As when firddcn cures were wrought at 1 he pool of Bethrjila, it might g ' 1 ' 'perhaps be attributed by many to fomebenencal contlellation, but we know out of the 'Evangelifi, that •n Angel defcended, and moved tha water, and made it fenarive : ' Whre we lind a probabrlity of fecond caufes in nature, we are apt to confine 'otlr thoughts irom looking kigher, yet even then there are many rimes unfecn hands: How much more when the work is above the power ol any fecondary caufe .? thrs carries its owu e~dencc without difpute, that il it be not uf nature, it muft needs be ofan higher dliciency Ex. g. Have we fecn a poor wcJk child railed up from dfad– ly Licknefs, when all natural helps have given him up, thw have the Angels uf God been his fecrct Phylitians. ' · Thty teach and tutor us: Some think, that Angels do help little Infants to fpea\t ;t:anch· de op<· and go, but howfoevcr they are as Tutors and Schoolma!lcrs to them, Zanchy CJm· trbus De~,/.3 · pareJtbcm jitft ta Nttrjir 1 and then to Schoolmaftcrr, tbaubat tbiy rnayi•Jlruu them, ~dC.l4· JnOt:ijht}JCI11, cvrreGf them, comfort them, defend tbem jTom all CpiJ, and prov11k_e them tO ..Ygood• .A dmidl\ all their offices ( which area\motlir1tinite) this I be!civc is the Ar\gds Epher.6 •4• care of little Child~cn, that they be brollght Hf in tbanurtureand admonition of the Lord. Heaven is the pla<;e, whence many good Angels are tallen, and the good An ~els would luve thde places filled up again with Sain1s. Hcuce they take care tf– pcc~lly ot their fouls, tacitely re\e-aling to them the mytlcrics ofgrace, not fo, as it the Angels
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