A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

In what he teacheth: How chary was Christ of charging his Disciples with any thing that they could not brook, John 16.12. I have many things to say unto unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. I have some harder Lessons to teach you, but ye are young Scholars, and not able yet to learn them, till ye have been longer in my School, and have attained more ripeness of understanding; therefore I will not trouble you now with them, but leave them to my Spirit, who shall prepare you for them, and enable you to learn them: Your Stomachs are weak, and yet must have that only which is of light Digestion, Milk, not strong meat, 1 Cor. 3.2. Your Backs are not strong, and therefore I will lay on you none but light burdens, But ye cannot bear them now; and therefore ye shall not hear them now, least ye should be offended and discouraged at them. When the Jews enquired of Christ, why his Disciples did not fast often, as well as the Disciples of John, and the Pharisees: Observe the reason our tender-hearted Lord gives, Math. 9.15, 16, 17. No man (saith he) puts new Wine into old Bottles, least the ⟨p. 160⟩Wine burst the Bottles; or soweth an old Garment to new Cloth, least the rent be worse. Alas, saith he, my Disciples are young Beginners, Babes in me, at best but little Children, not strong Men, or Fathers, and therefore they must not be called presently to the Austerities or Severities of Religion, least they, poor Souls, should be discouraged in their Work, and faint under it: I must proportion their Burden to their Backs, and lead them their own pace, as they are able to go at present. Hereafter indeed they shall be called to suffer great things for my Names sake; they shall be hated and persecuted of all men, but then they shall be fitted for those Severities, and undergo them with courage; but yet such deep Points, and obscure Notions, must not be offered to Novices.

In what he teacheth: How chary was Christ of charging his Disciples with any thing that they could not brook, John 16.12. I have many things to say unto unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. I have some harder Lessons to teach you, but ye are young Schollars, and not able yet to learn them, till ye have been longer in my School, and have attained more ripeness of understanding; therefore I will not trouble you now with them, but leave them to my Spirit, who shall prepare you for them, and enable you to learn them: Your Stomachs are weak, and yet must have that onely which is of light Digestion, Milk, not strong meat,