From the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception

From the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

God's curse follows the wicked close: sometimes in their birth; sometimes in the womb; and sometimes hindering the conception. You see how God has us at advantage, how he has us in his hand at every turn; he might if he had pleased smit us in our conception; if he had spared there, stifled us in the womb; if spared there, made us stick in the birth.

Therefore learn we to acknowledge God's mercy in the general, that he is patient, and long suffering, and gracious to us; let us consider at the several passages of his mercy, to bless God not only for our general preservation, but how he did preserve us in the very conception, preserves us in our mother's womb, and then in the birth, and then in the cradle, and in our childhood, in our youth, and in our middle age, in our old age, for we lie at his mercy at every point of time.

Their glory shall fly away like a bird; from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception; of some I'll hinder the conception, some others in the womb shall die, others when they come to be born there they shall perish in their birth, and so at every time my curse shall follow them, from the conception, from the womb, and from the birth.

Yes, and fourthly, though perhaps some may escape in the conception, and in the womb, and in the birth, yet it follows;