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after
,
yet
-want
gro
with
in.
ri,hteoufnefe..
mother,
but
lyes fprawling, crying, and
is
troublefome
to the
hóufe,
what
delight
can
í11e
take
in
it
then,
but
her bowels
yearne
towards
it,
and
the
child
is
lick; faith.lhe,; fo
the un-
righteoufnei3e
that remaines,
it's the fcknelfe
of
the
foul, and
the
bowels of
Gods
compalfions are towards
his lick
children,
as
weilas
towards
his
prong children,
l'le
put
this
to
a
father
or
mother,
fuppofe
that
thou hail
a
child that
is
weake,
but
would faine do whatfoever
you would have
him,and
this
child
is got
alone
into
a
room;'
and
the door
lhut
upon
him,
fo
that
the
child
thinks no
body
fees
ir,
well
it
may
be thou
lookefll.
through
a
Key-hole
and
feed
the
child
what he
is a
doing, he
is crying and
bemoaning himfelf
:
O that I
fhould
be.
to
enrá-
ward
as
I
ana, O.
that
I
should
not
pleafe
my
father
and
mother
more,
O
how
little
am
I
able
to
doe
for my
father átid
mother,
O
that
I
were
able
to
thew
my felfe
more dutifuil.then
I
have
been, O that I
could
fo
walk
before them
as
I might never be
undurifull
any
more,
this would be
the
happinefle
of
my
life,
if
I should never be
any
more Undutiful
to
father
and
móther,
fuppofe
any
of
you
thould
look
through
the
key-hole and fee
your child
thus bemoaning himfelfe becaufe
he
can
be
no
bet-
..
ter,
and thus
clefiring
that he might live
tobe
more
dutifull,
would not
your bowels yearne
towards
fuch
á
child
?
you know
the
child
doth not think'
you
fee
him, but
by
accident
you
do
come
to
fee
him,
would
not
your
bowels yearn
now
toward
-him
?
Know
that,God
is
a
compall'ionate
Father,
from whence
is
it
t_hatyou.have fuch compafliions
toward your
children,
is
it
not
a
drop
of
that infinite
cowaflìon
is
in
God
?
when
thou
gettell
alone, and
art bewayling thy
felfe
that
thou
cant}
not
live to the
honour
of
Godt
lore, if
thou
couldéft, thou woúl-
defl
account thy life
to
be happy,
know
God
hears
all
this,
God
looks upon
thee
and
`obferyes all
this
;,
Surely
God
will
not call
of
fueh
an
one
as
bath
his
heart
thus-
hungrily
and
thirfling
after
what might be
acceptable unto
God,
you
know
the Scripture
compares
Chrifi
to
a
Shepheard,
and
beleevers
to fheep,
now faith
he, My
fheep
heare
mÿ
voice
;
That
is
taken from
the
way
of thole Countries
where
fhep-
-
beards
did
ufe
their
¡beep fo to the
voice
ofthemi
as
if
they
call'd
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