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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. He speaketh condescendingly, to the condition and understanding of those to whom he speaketh: He considereth the Natures and Tempers, and Capacities of his Hearers, and accordingly speaks to them: He doth not (as some Ministers) speak in an unknown Tongue, or soar into the Clouds, exceed the Capacities of his Hearers, that he might be wondered at, not understood; but he observeth their Weakness and Infirmities, yea their dullness and incapacity, and teacheth them as they are able to hear him. There are Depths in his Word for Elephants to swim in, (to tell the World what and how he could speak, to exercise our industry, and prevent our contempt of it for its plainness,) and there are Shallows for Lambs to wade through, that none might be discouraged. Christ is our Priest, and the Priests Lips teach knowledge, and he is a merciful Priest, Heb. 2.16. Condescending in what he teacheth, and in the way of his teaching, to the capacities of his Hearers.
2. He speaketh condescendingly, to the condition and understanding of those to whom he speaketh: He considereth the Natures and Tempers, and Capacities of his Hearers, and accordingly speaks to them: He doth not (as some Ministers) speak in an unknown Tongue, or soar into the Clouds, exceed the Capacities of his Hearers, that he might be wondred at, not understood; but he observeth their Weakness and Infirmities, yea their dulness and incapacity, and teacheth them as they are able to hear him. There are Depths in his Word for Elephants to swim in, (to tell the World what and how he could speak, to exercise our industry, and prevent our contempt of it for its plainness,) and there are Shallows for Lambs to wade through, that none might be discouraged. Christ is our Priest, and the Priests Lips teach knowledge, and he is a merciful Priest, Heb. 2.16. Condescending in what he teacheth, and in the way of his teaching, to the capacities of his Hearers.
In what he teacheth: How chary was Christ of charging his Disciples with any thing that they could not brook,