Excerpt from An Essay on the Future State of Children Which Have Died in Infancy, or Substantial Reasons for Bereaved Parents to Entertain a Well-Grounded Hope of the Salvation of All Children That Have Died in a State of Infancy: Also Is Appended a Stricture Upon the Human SoulAlthough our blessed Lord did not at this time pray for the World, he prayed most earnestly for the vilest part of it when upon the cross, see Luke xxiii. V. 34; but now his concern was chiefly for his Apostles and Disciples, knowing how severely they would be assaulted by the Devil after his departure, therefore he pray s to his Father to keep them from the Devil, or the Evil One. Some Dissenters have taken up an idea from this passage, that it is not the duty of ministers to pray for the world; but St. Paul says, I exhort, there fore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, and inter cessions, he made for all men, 1 Timothy ii. 1.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.