all that pertained] Little infants not excepted; who though not guilty of their sinne, were taken in their snare; their parents being punished in them, in whom their memorie might have flourished, after a well-led life, and naturall death: and though they were little, they had sinne enough in their nature to deserve the shortening of their lives; yet God, while in justice he killed their bodies, might in mercy save their soules.