A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

But yet is there no such thing as Ignorant, ¹dull, injudicious Christians, because they know all things; Must we not use such phrases and Epithets, because Christianity cureth them. Dear brother, I have no mind to make you odious, nor to open your sin to others; But you have opened it to the World, and I must open it to you, if possibly you may repent; But especially I am bound to try to save mens souls from this perilous deceit; And theref••• I shall prove to you that there are such […] and ignorant and injudicious Christians; And 2. I shall tell you the greatness of your error and sin.

But yet is there no such thing as Ignorant, ¹dull, injudicious Christians, because they know all things; Must we not use such phrases and Epithetes, because Christianity cureth them. Dear brother, I have no mind to make you odious, nor to open your sin to others; But you have opened it to the World, and I must open it to you, if possibly you may repent; But especially I am bound to try to save mens souls from this perilous deceit; And theref••• I shall prove to you that there are such 〈…〉 and ignorant and injudicious Christians; And 2. I shall tell you the greatness of your error and sin.

1. 1See my book of Directions to weak Christians to grow in grace.

That there are such is proved, 1. By the words of Scripture, Heb. 5. 11, 12, 13, 14. [Seeing ye are dull of hearing: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat; For every one that useth milk is unskilful (or unexperienced) in the word of Righteousness; for he is a babe: But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.