...underftand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breafts. For precept muft be upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little." Ifa. xxviii. 9, 10 The breaft being withdrawn, I fearched the fcriptures day and night...

...given them great encouragement, and had promised 13 them rest and refreshment, yet they would not hear. But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon...precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a littlej [and] there a little ; that they might go, and fall backward, and be- broken, and snared, and...

...their ad-vantages, they are but like children 10 learning their ßrst rudiments. For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, [and] there a little ; the same things must be often inculcated ufton them, in the jilainest manner, and...

...perfift in explaining the whole counfel of God, in letting forth the fincere word of Jefus Chrift, precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, and there a little, in meeknefs injlructing thofe that oppofe them/elves; in humble hope that peradventure...

...may see in the context of that foremention. cd, Isa. xxviii. 16. In ver. 1S, preceding, it is said, " But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon...fall backward, and be broken, and snared and taken." And accordingly it always is so, that when Christ is in a peculiar and eminent manner manifested and...

...ability to comfort others ; yet they would not understand him. XXVIII. 13 But the word of the LORI> was unto them precept •upon precept, precept upon...fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. strnction, it shall be of force to obdurc them, and an occasion of their fall and furtherjudgnlent....

...may see in the context of that forementionecl, Isa. xxviii. 16. In ver. 1 3, preceding, it is said, " But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon...little, and there a little, that they might go, and fallbackward, and be broken, and snared and taken." And accordingly it always is so, that when Christ...

...weaned from the breast; so uncapable are thev of wholesome doctrine. XXVIII. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: To them, as unto new weaned children, there must be both leisure and assiduity in teaching,...

...Lord hath made all things for himself: yea even the wicked for the day of evil." By Isaiah God says, " But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon...fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken." Of the Lord Jesus Christ it is written, " In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee,...

...'use to make than that it was the unknown tongue that made him fall. Man of Sin, B. ii p. 58. • . " But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon...line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little." — It was cautiously dealt out to them in piecemeal, by scraps, garbled extracts,...