Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians

TO know the Father according to the scope and intendment of the Text in relation to the Little Children, is to know him by way of interest and experience: 1. By way of interest, as their Father, to know themselves to be his Children; and so it notes a state of assurance. 'Tis a reciprocal knowledge in a relative notion, like that of the Spouse, I am my beloveds, and he is mine; to be able to say as Thomas, My Lord and my God. Though every Child of God (as Babes) cannot say, My Father, yet every of the Little Children can say, My Father; and not only, Abba Father, but My Father: according to Jer. 3.19. I will put thee among the Children, and thou shalt call me, My Father. Our Saviour promised his Babe-Disciples, that (when the Spirit was poured out upon them) in that day they should know their union with and interest in him, which was all one as with and in the Father, Joh. 14.8,—20. and at that time he (by his Spirit) would show them plainly of the Father, Joh. 16.25. with Joh. 14.26. The great thing (one of them) among others, which the Spirit was to declare, was their interest in and union with the Father, and with Christ Joh. 16 13,—15. with 1 Joh. 5.19, 20. and