cio £&ecottti &E The next they brought up, was a Bottle of Wine
Red as Blood. So Gains faid to them, Drink freely
this is the true Juice of the Vine, that makes glad th<
Heart of God and Man. So they drank and wer*
merrry.
The next was a Difh of Milk wel
A Dijh of crumbled: But Gains faid, Let the Poj
Milk. have\ that, that they may grow thereby
1 Pet. 2. i, 2.
Then they brought up in Courfe a Difli of Butte
and Honey. Then faid Gains, eat free
Of Honey, of 1 y of this, for this is good to chea
■Butter. up, and ftrengthen your Judgment!
and Underftandings : This was ou
Lord’s Dith when he was a Child : But - Ifa. 7. 15. ter and Honey fkall be eat, that he ma
know to refufe the Evil, and chufe th
Govd. era
“Then they
A Dijh of
'Apples.
brought him up a Difh of Apples
and they were very good tailed Fruit
Then faid Matthew, may we eat Ap
pies, fmee they were fuch, by and wit
which the Serpent beguiled our firj
Mother ?
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Then faid Gains,
Apples were they with which we were beguil'd,
Tet Sin, not Apples, hath our Souls defil'd.:
Apples forbid, if eat, corrupts the Blood ; To eat fuch, when cominanded, does us good ; Drink of his Flaggons then, thou Church, his DoVe?
And eat his Apples, who are fick of Love.
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Then
& while
faid Matthew, I made the Scruple, becaufe
fuieQ I vra§ Sick wi^h eating qf Fruit* . C(t;