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And Bellamy says:

Dr. John Edwards, who wrote near the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, who has been styled the Paul, the Augustine, the Calvin of his age, and of whom it is said "that all unbiassed and impartial men voted him by universal consent to be one of the most valuable writers of his time"—this learned divine, referring to the calamities and sufferings to which infants as well as adults are subject in this life, and which he regards as punishments, argues thus:

"We may well argue from these things, that are