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14. But what were those golden Spoons a type of?

I answer, If the Milk is the Juice, and Consolations of the Word, then the Spoons must be those soft sentences, and golden Conclusions, with which the Ministers feed their Souls by it. I have fed you, said Paul, with the Milk of the Word; saith Peter, even as you have been able to bear it. Compare these two or three Texts; 1 Pet. 2.1, 2, 3. 1 Cor. 3.2. 1 Thess. 2.7.

15. And this is the way to strengthen the weak hands, and to confirm the feeble knees. This is the way to make them ⟨p. 137⟩grow to be Men, who now are but as Infants of days. Thus a little one may become a thousand, and a small one a strong Nation. Yea, thus in time, you may make a little Child to Jostle it with a Leopard, yea, to take a Lyon by the beard; yea thus you may embolden him to put his hand to the hole of the Asp, and to play before the Den of the Cockatrice. Isa. 11.6, 7, 8. Chap. 60.22.

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