In Epistolam D. Pauli Apostoli ad Galatas notae

in the mother's womb.
Thus Luke 1: John is destined from the womb as the precursor to Christ.

Fruits of this doctrine.

1. Patience in adversities, as David in Psalm 22: Upon You I was cast.
2. Gratitude and humility in the gifts of God. God is He from whom you have everything. What is more miserable than an infant in the womb? What did you merit?
3. For the future, let there be confidence with prayer, and let vain care be absent. Ah, what will become of the child!
1. Look to the promise unto the thousandth generation, and do your duty as a faithful man and a good father.
2. Know that God has designated even your offspring for a certain calling from the mother's womb.

Christ says, Let the present day be content with its own trouble. The Lord cares for the infant of the handmaid Hagar.

In Jonah, the Lord is solicitous for the infants of the Ninevites.

I wish that He would also do so for ours, so that the Turk might not reduce them under his yoke, or at least that He might preserve them in the faith; and that the consolation of the Holy Spirit might never desert them, and that for the sake of His holy name, Ezekiel 9.

The saints do indeed tremble at times, but having called upon God, they are confirmed in faith, and they experience His fatherly care in reality. Let us bring to mind what the Lord says through Zechariah in chapter 2: Whoever touches you, touches the pupil of my eye. The greatest care is for the eyes, for the sense is most tender. Psalm 55: Cast your burden upon the Lord and He