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We have a title to be provided for as we are Gods creatures: another title as we are his Children: another because God hath promised: and every of our children hath the same title; and therefore it is a huge folly and infidelity to be troubled and full of care because we have many children. Every childe we have to feed is a new revenue, a new title to Gods care and providence; so
that many children are a great wealth: and if it be said they are chargeable, it is no more then all wealth and great revenues are. For what difference is it? Titius keeps ten ploughs, Cornelia hath ten children: He hath land enough to imploy, and to feed all his hindes; she blessings, and promises, and the provisions▪ and the truth of God to maintain all her children. His hindes and horses eat up all his corn, and her children are suffici∣ently maintained with her little. They bring in and eat up; and she indeed eats up, but they also bring in from the store-houses of heaven, and the granaries of God: and my children are not so much mine as they are Gods: he feeds them in the womb by waies secret and insensible; and would not work a perpetual miracle to bring them forth, and then to starve them.