John Trapp on Psalms 8:2

Verſ. 2. Out of the mouth of Babes and ſucklings] For whom, God hath filled two Bottles of Milk againſt they come into the World: and in whoſe birth, ſuſtenance, and wonderful protection (for Puerilitas eſt periculorum pelagus) but eſpecially in their holy and religious education, much of Gods Providence, Power, and Goodneſs is clearly ſeen and ſet forth to the conviction of the vileſt Atheiſts. So that, beſides the Earth and the Heavens, we have very Infants Preachers of Gods praiſes, and more effectual Oratours than ever were Iſocrates, Demoſthenes, Pericles, &c. ſo our Saviour underſtands it, Mat. 21.10. where the Children ſang Hoſanna when the Phariſees were ſilent. It is ſometimes ſeen, that Ipſa Deo blandos fundant cunabula flores.

John Baptiſt ſprang in the Wombe for joy of Jeſus. Hierom writeth of Paula, that noble Matron, that ſhe rejoyced in nothing more than this, That ſhe heard her Neece Paula ſing Hallelujah in her Cradle. Bellarmine tells us out of Theodoret, In cunis cunis ba[illegible: 2 letters] butienti lin[illegible: 2 letters] Hallelujah Cantare. Hi[illegible: 2 letters] that the Children of Samoſatena playing at Tenniſ-ball in the midſt of the Market, did ſolemnly caſt it into the fire, becauſe it had but toucht the foot of the Aſſe, wheron Lucius the Heretical Biſhop rode. The Children of Merindal ſo poſed, and anſwered one another, in matters of Religion, before the perſecuting Biſhop of Cavaillon, that a religious man that ſtood by ſaid unto the Biſhop, I muſt needs confeſs that I have often been at the Diſputation of the Doctors in Sorbon, Act & Mon[illegible: 2 letters] fol. 865. Ibid. 1156. but yet I never learned ſo much as I have done by hearing theſe young children. When Mr. Blecter the Biſhops Chaplain told Mr. Wiſehart the Scotch Martyr, that he had a Devil in him, and the ſpirit of Error; a Childe that ſtood by anſwered him, ſaying, A Devil cannot ſpeak ſuch words as yonder man ſpeaketh. At the burning of John Laurence at Colcheſter, as he was ſitting in the fire (for ſtand he could not, he had been ſo hardly uſed in the Priſon) the young Children came about the fire, and cried, Lord, ſtrengthen thy Servant, and keep thy promiſe. Ibid. 1403. Here was ſtrength out of the mouthes of little ones, taught betime to ſpeak the language of Canaan. Sed vae vae parentibus illis (ſaith Polanus on the Text) But wo, wo to thoſe Parents who make their Children (whom God would have to be witneſſes of his Majeſty) witneſſes of their impiety, pride, and vanity.

That thou mighteſt ſtill the enemy and the avenger] i.e. Silence Atheiſts and Perſecutors.