Venning's remains, or, Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians, I. babes, II.…

Let us in the next place see how pat and parallel to this, that other Text in the fifth of the Hebrews is. The Author having told them, Vers. 9. That Christ Jesus being made perfect, i. e. glorified, was become the Author or meritorious and procuring cause of Salvation to them that (believe in and) obey him, called of God an High Priest after the order of Melchisedee, Vers. 10. Of whom, saith he, Vers. 11. we have many things to say: why do ye not say on and speak out then? Why, because they are hard to be uttered, which doth not imply any defect or inability in the Apostle to utter them, as if he wanted either knowledge or utterance, but an incapacity in them to entertain them, because they were dull of hearing; for though as to their standing they ⟨p. 61⟩might have been teachers, yet as to their understanding they needed to learn, and con over again the first principles, and lay the first foundation: They had need of Milk (as the Corinthians had) i. e. to be taught to repent and believe as if they were scarce converted, but as carnal. Thus both these places concur in the same subjects and attributes. Before I come to speak of their attainments and characters particularly, I shall briefly touch a few observations from these two Texts, which will make our way the more plain and smooth. As,

Let us in the next place see how pat and parallel to this, that other Text in the fifth of the Hebrews is. The Authour having told them, Vers. 9. That Christ Jesus being made perfect, i. e. glorified, was become the Authour or meritorious and procuring cause of Salvation to them that (believe in and) obey him, called of God an High Priest after the order of Melchisedee, Vers. 10. Of whom, saith he, Vers. 11. we have many things to say: why do ye not say on and speak out then? Why, because they are hard to be uttered, which doth not imply any defect or inability in the Apostle to utter them, as if he wanted either knowledge or utterance, but an incapacity in them to entertain them, because they were dull of hearing; for though as to their standing they ⟨p. 61⟩might have been teachers, yet as to their understanding they needed to learn, and con over again the first principles, and lay the first foundation: They had need of Milk (as the Corinthians had) i. e. to be taught to repent and believe as if they were scarce converted, but as carnal. Thus both these places concur in the same subjects and attributes. Before I come to speak of their attainments and characters particularly, I shall briefly touch a few observations from these two Texts, which will make our way the more plain and smooth. As,