Ch2p.2. sea:.~. <!omnntnion lllttfJ :{{ngels Book II. Ul --:---:::----- ' Angels ollice were to preacn the word ; that Miniflry is not committed to them, bu~ to the Apofllcs, and others called to it; but 'tis at lea{} the Angels care, that both children and adult fhould be taught in the Church by men .appointed and prepa- A~s 8 • oo, red by the Angtls: thus the Angel fpoke to Philip, wheti he was to preach the Gofpel to A 010 ' 6 • the Eunuch, fayiug,Arife, and go toward! the Soutl' :, And another Angel fpake to Corve· /ius, faying , find tv Joppa , .,dC!lU forone, ~in\ on Peter, who jha/1 ttll tlmwhatthou oughtejl to do. It the Angels are not our ordina.ry Preachers,lefrthey dazleus(their brightncfs being unfuitable to our weak conditions( yet are they Godsinflruments to provide Preachers for us, that by tj.Jem we may be in!trucred in the Law of God, and rnyfteries of th" Gofpel. A>1d fomething more the Angels do, in that they fuggeft to infants pious thGughts, and tacitely provoke them to a pious life, and draw out of Pfal.s. 2 • them fuch gracious holy words, that the Pfalmifls faying is verified, Out of the Mat,ou6. mouth of Babes and SucJ1i~tg! hajl thou ordainedJlrwgbt. Thus When the children cryed in the Temple, H,Janna tothe Son of David, and therefore the Priefts and Scribes wne fore difplcafed, }ofus made their Apolol',y, Cayiog.Havtyeneverread,omof thtmoitth of Babes andSuckJingshajltiJouperjtaedpra•fi? Certainly thofe Hnf.mna's of the childre.~> wtre above nature, or·a{quited p:urs:or Parents Education , and therefoic they were taught 1hem by the Ang<ls, SECT. Ill. , E~periencu of tbi< trxtb. EXperiences -- · _ I. For keeping us from evil. An Infant being laid in his bed with fume favants, he was near morning found out' of the bed among w.o~den and iron tools , enough to have kilkd him, he was ea– ken up cold, yet witlio!lt any hirm, and being laid in the warm bed he revived, and fo wa. grocioufly preferved. A Chtld fdl into a River of waters, and being carriod down the ftream, was at !aft ta– ken up for dead, but after fame time he revived, and the next day I faw him, and telling him that God had given him a new life, the child wept,I delired him to remember it,im– prove it, and to thank God forthat mercy all his daies. A child playing by the fide vf a pond, fc11 into it, where it was like to_rerifh : Near the pond· was an houfe, where only was one man reading in a book, but It pleafed God that he was fuddenly fo troubled , though he knew not for what, chat he could read no longer; whereupon he walked up and down the room, but could not be qui· et; then he walked forth and efpied a firaw bat [wimming upon the water, and. looking earnefily , he faw the child rife to the top of the water, and fo catthing hold of it, drew itout,andfaYed itslife. Whiu. . There was a Maid, who lived with her Mother in Bar,gamus, and was in one and the f•me nisht by a ftrange wonder brought into the City of Venice; they in the family where fhe arrived, were near allied to her, and coming in the morninjl; in· to the Ch<Wnber where !l.e was, and findiAg her unexpeCl:edly !lark naked, without any linnen , as fo much as a rag to cover her, gently demanded of her, how fhe came thither? where her cloaths were? and what wao the c•ufe of her coming? the poor Girle bein~; much afhamed, and mixing her blufheswith many tears,madeanfwerco this purpofe: 'This very night (faid !be) when llay betwixt lleep and awake in bed, 'I perctived my Mother flea! fofcly from my fide, thinking I had not feen her , 'and firipping her fi:lf from all her linnen , fhe took from her Clofet a box of oynr– •ment, which opt'ning, fhe anoiuted her felfthercwich unaer the arm-pits, and Come 'other parts of the body, which done, fhe rook a fiaff, which flood ready m a cor– ' ner, which fhe had no feoner beflrid, but in the inllant fhe ric;l (or rather flew) 'out of the Window, and I faw her no more, at which being much amazed, and the 'candle ftill burning by me, I thought in my [elf eo cry a childifh €Onalufion, and riling · 'from my bed , took down the fame boll, and anointing my felf, as I had before ob-, 'l~rved her, and making ufe of a bedflaffin the like maimer, I was fuddcnly brought 'hither in~ momenc,wherc I wasno fooner entred,but I efpicd my Mother in the Cham- ' ber with a knife in her hand, with l'urpofe'\as I thought) to kill this my young Ne-, ~ phew (pointing to a child in the cradle) but fhe was hindred by finding me here, who 'no fooner· f1w me, but fhe bq~an grievou!ly to threat me, a~<l c. m~ near to flrikeme,, R ~
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