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phefians,
Chap.4.
V
E
R.14.
u
Fi
o.;.r4.
chers.
Continue
in
the
things
which
thou
haft learned
;
Why
e
Beeau
fe
thou haft
Beene
perfwaded
of
them
in
a
right
order.
2. Becaafe thou know-
eft
who
i
am
that
taught
thee
them.
So
this
motive,
if
we approve thole
that
teach
us
on
good
grounds,
it will make
us
hold
to
their teaching
more
firmely.
Not
that
I
would have
men
fweare
that
this
is
Gofpel,
becaafe we
fpeake
it
;
this
is
the
Church
of
Rome her
impudencie,
that rulethover
faith; but belceve things
,
becaufe you
finde them
fo
in
the holy Scripture ; yet
fo
farte
flick
to
them that
teach you
faith-
fully, and
live
Chriftianly,
as
not to
liften to another
lightly.
Yfe
z,
This letteth
us
fee
what they
aime at
that
fpeake nippingly
of
Miniflers
minifery,
as
they
are odde
men, the
moreyou follow them,
the
lefl'e
you
Mall
know what to bide by, &c.
Thefe
feeke
to
unfettle
us
in
our
Religion,
and
draw
us
to whore with fome falfe worfhipr
For
as a
man
that
fpeaketh to
a
woman
ill
of her
husband ,
doth loo
-
fen
her minds from him, meaning
to
winnc
her
to himfelfe
:
So
doe
thefe,
&c.
Doïi.
Like
children;]
marke
then,
that
thofe
that
are under
a
catlnifiery,
We mull
not
muff
not alwayes
be
children for
knowledge.
Paul Both
lay it
in
the
chili
ftil
be
children
of the Corinthians
and
Hebrews
as a
fault,
that they
continued
to
be
in knowledge
babes,
under
,
when
as
they
fhould have
growne further. Paul telleth
us
that
the
Minifery.
we
muff
be
children in
malicioufneffe,
not
in underftanding;
For
the
Mi-
r
Cor.
3r
niftery
is
not onely
a
feed to
beget
us
, milke
to
feed
us
in
childhood,
ona4.
zo.
r4.
but
thong
meate,
by
benefit
of
which, we
are
to grow
up further and
t
further
in
the knowledge
of
the will of
God.
VP.
We
muff
know
then,that God doth
likewife
look for this fruit
from
us,thac we fhould
not
Dill
continue children. But
if
wee looke
to
the
properties
of
them
in
Scripture,
We
!hall fee
that
wee are babes
:
for
who
is a
child
a
He
that
cannot feed uponmeare but milke
,
that
can
Bate
nothing which
is
not chewed to hand
:
So
it
is
with
us,
for
when
we
are
taught the doftrine
of
predeflination,
of
taking away the
Law
through the death
of
Chriff,
of
the
Date
of
the
life
to
come, then
wee
think men walk in
the clouds,
and
love
to
foam
above our
capacities;`
whereas it
is
an
argument, not
ofthe
Teachers
fault,
but
of
our own
weakeneffe
,
that
wee
Dill
are children
,
who
cannot
beare
thong
meats,
nor
heare
that
more ripe wifdome which
the Word
revealeth..
3. Marke
what
is
the
property
of
ua, while
we
continue
in
childhood,
we
are
ready
to be
whirled
about
with
every
doUrine,
to dance
after
any
pipe
that
playeth.
For
fo
it
is in
things
that
are
tender, not come to growth,
they are
eafily
removed.
To
come
to
this
prefent comparifon of
children, and
a
little
to
confider,
that
w4 may finde
out the
reafon
of
this
dolrine.
There
are
three things
in
children which
make
them
fo flexible.
r.
By reafon
of
the
folly
that
is in
them, they
are over
credu
lous, for
foolifhneffe
is eafie
of
beleefe.
Prov.
4.15.
The
fimple beleeveth every
word.
a. They
are
newfangled &fickle, to day they will play with
a
thing, to morrow
caD
it away.
3.
They
Doîi.
We
are
apt
in
thisour child-
hood
to
be car-
ried about with
every
doctrine.
Three things
which
make
children
wave-
ring.