{ii iHJiitrtJumfu;JJc JJ01mihil, quanfJtmper £tatem licuerit. But, Thirdly, you reafOn again, ·C/;rill jj""k.! inde;'initdy of thcje little oneJ, Their Ange!J] (i. e.}the Ange/1 of alltl"fe thm Jpoktn of; n"r> duhe Anf!.eiJ look._ tocvery child th.1t i1 born in itJ i"fimcy and cl:i'd– lmd l Nu; if they arc not ElcC'r, the good Angels have no charge of them,• Cnrill fp,aks not of all children elect and reprobJte, bur of thefe little""', <~ddit iltis, poynting to luch like as that little child was, whom he[et i11 the midft of them. lta & hicp11ellw,r!r Mufculus omnes Cbrijii.morum infantei ad Chri{tum pertinemn, dcque numero jit/clium c;.ijfcntcs, ibiJ, &c. The inlbnces ot Chrift ana Hagar, which you call extraordinary, is anlwcrcd . bclorc. ObjcU In s,ct. 2. God keeps children wonderfully, but whether by Angels, or by his ' own hor.d, I cannot fly, tor Scnpture dorh nut by it : it is as cof.ic tor God to do it without them, as by them ; - - tor health, a poor cr,ild rray rccovcr; but as God dot~ not bldl<: the Phytick man gives, fo he may not ufe other Phyl'tions, but do it himfdf. That in,!ance of the Angd at the Pool,Dr.Hamond makes an Angel there ·a mdfen• ger, and the remedy natural, &c. but it done by an A11gd, this wascxtraori!inary,and in a vitible way, and f;nown to be done by an Angel. I hope you will fJy, God hoth the fan ecare to keep children, os the adult: and the AJi[w.• Scripture faith, be jha/1 g.ive biJ Angel! cbargervcr tbcc to ktep tbce in all thy wayes; tf pfal. 91-11: ytt yo:.~ will fay, it j, as cafie tor God to do it> without them, as by the:m; IS not rhis to be wife above m<afurc' by the fame reafon Jou may fay, whar need of Mogitlrates or M.tnillers iu Stare, or Chmch? what need of aoy fecondary means for our Temporal, or Spiricctal g"od.>it is no contradiction that God will watch over us by his own Providence, and that he will have his Angels to attend us; this takes not away horn bis care, but htl't• by h~ declares,. and conveys his care aQd love unt~ us. fi<:_tanqzMmp~r ftipfum onn:iapot£jt Rivim J~ ;' 1Jcurlncc prrpter pr£{fami!Jimam virtutcw,atque infinitam pvtentiam ulto prorjuJ adagcndum pr.tfid. Angtl, j;;jfrttmww indiget, t,;.men ita[tmCiiffim.e ejus voluntati vifum rjf (wjur fimt rutioneJ, v:orft· p.1o9. liJq> (lccu!t.:l noLi1)ut ad miJJ.iJtcriumfimm atq; ad effcienrla ea qu:t ipje VJtlt,rcbttr a fe conditii 11/Crctur.- For health, you fay a poor child may recover, though God may nor ufe other P hytirians, whether men or Angels, but do it himfelf. I quetiion not what God may do, for he may d0 what he will; but whether he ufually works Jmmediatly, or by inllru• ments,.you have heard before. That inllance of the Angel at the Pool, you fay Dr. H;m• mmd inruprers was done by a mdfeogq, and by naturJI means, but all the Expofitors that ever l rcadbcforc him,f1y it was done by au Anscl,and 1believe you are c,f thcfm1e mind. As for you Objection of extraordinary, it is now l;ccomefo ordi~ary, tlllt { 1:ecd fay nomoretuir. . ... In Sect. 2. The infiances in A!Jr 8. 20. and 1 o. 16. arc particular Jlill, and Objc{/.; extraordinary, in Mattb•. 21. 1 6. Thofe Ho[anna's becaufe above nature, or acqu·tred parts, or Parents Education , doth it therefore follow , that certainly they were tauglot rlicm by the. Angels? i.s this {ttfficims emmurallio partittm I wag the Spirit that feized upon Paul in Naiotb an Angel, or dOfle by the infrntmentality of on Angel. · The intrances which you put off upon ·the account of particular and extroardinary, Anfw. Jlh•ll henceforth put offwith filence, for 1would not too much tautologizc, Crambr ~ecoa" morr eft, Thofc If{aima's of the children, bccan(i: above nature or acquired P"rts, or Parents Educareon mufi needs pe cxtraordhary as to us; and if fa either they mufi be done by God, or his Spirit immediotely, and that you have heard is nor Gods ufual way . ·or mediatcly by fame ioftrument o' other ; a11d what good inllrumee.rs can you rhtnk of to coyn good imprdlions on our fancy and imagination but the An– gels ot God?l\s for theSpirit that Ceized uponSaul in N•iotb, either it was the evil lpirit, the evil(pirit from God. came "f"nSaul, andhe propb~jicd in themidjl of tbe bort{e ; or it wa• I Sam. r3. ro; the good Spidt, by which he wao rapt, as one be<eft of his Scnfes for that time; and if fo, I know nor bm an Angel might be infrrumeutal in it, y,et all is put upon the fc•re of the Spait, becaufe the infpiratiou was from him. Oh why ·thouId we·make thcf~ clalh ?. !hough the Angt;l.s miniiler in thefe particulars, yet we kovc unto God the all in all; as I• The Commilliou. 2. The Infpiration. 3• The Benediction, the Angels are Cillerns,- bur not Fountains; we af.;ribe nothing to them to derogate from God, or Chrill, or from the Spirit ot Chritt. in Sed:. 3· The children preferved, llill the fJme doubr recLm, whether mediateObje{f.- Jy, or immcdiatly.-- The inllance of the weakly child, and the child nnrlcd Jt Eolt 011 ,. IS afmbed i.n the very relation; to God and hi• goodneffe; no mention of An>\ek Y 2 ~m /.
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