...passions, it shows weakness, instead of strength and fortitude, i Cor. iii. at the beginning, And /, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in C'irist. — For ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and itrije, and divisions,...

...wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." He likewise speaks ironically of their pretensions to wisdom : iv. 10, " We are fools for Christ's...

...méat: for hitherto ye were not able /<> bear il, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal : 3 For whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and wàlk as men ? 4 For while one sailli, I am of Paul ; and auother, I am of Apollos ; are ye not carnal...

...this very Epistle from which our text is taken, Saint Paul, addressing the Corinthians, says ; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." The Corinthian converts, then, had not advanced beyond the first principles of the oracles of God :...

...they not being able to digeft fuch as were more tough and S ERM. difficult : / have, faith St. Paul, fed you with milk, and not *• with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it— -for ye, cor.iii. ?. are yet carnal ; and, Ye, faith the Apoftle to the Hebrews, Heb. vn are fuch as...

...be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."— 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so convincing,...

...be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."—1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so...

...many things to say unto you ; but ye cannot bear them now," St. John xvi. 12! And St Paul says—" And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal ; even as unto babes in Christ : 1 have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye are not able to bear it ; neither yet...

...divisions among you ; for it hath been declared unto me of you, that there are contentions among you". And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even a into babes in Christ*. For ye are yet carnal; for uhtircas there is among you envyings, and strife,...

...Corinth, that they were of little growth in grace ; such as were not past the child's spoon and meat : " I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto...neither yet now are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." 1 Cor. iii. 2. Nay, he conceives this to be so clear evidence, that he appeals to their consciences...