...of children. cxv. 14. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children. cxxvii. 3. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womh is his reward. cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, by the sides of thine house,...

...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives...

...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives...

...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old; Lo.t children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the vonib is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage...

...soldiers to defend them, nor break their sleep with labour and care, to supply their necessities. Ver. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LoRD^ and the fruit of the womb is his reward."] Observe it also, it is not in the power of the strongest and most healthful persons (though nature...

...rise up early, to sit up late, to cat the bread of sorrows : Jor so he givcth his beloved sleep. 3 and Abhdoth-pisgah, and Beth-je himoth, 21 And ^vomb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. '...

...frame, and requite the kindnefs we have fhewn to them. " As arrows in the hands of the mighty, fo are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They (hall not be afhamed, but fhall fpeakwith the enemies in the gate." There are fome youths, of...

...?" % Amen. • i Pet. i. 3, 4.. ' Rev. xxi. 4. SERMON XVII. CHILDREN, BLESSINGS. PSALM CXXVU. 4, 5. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed,...

...her own manufactory, that she may embrace the Rock for the want of a shelter, Job xxiv. 8. Amen. " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward," PsaL cxxvii. 3. Fourthly, My eldest son, Gad, whose name signifies a troop, whom I so named by reason...

...fit them to return every morning, with o renewed vigour and alacrity, to their stated employments. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD : and the fruit of the luomb is his reward. The labours of mankind, first in building houses and cities, and then in guarding...