How could they abandon that time-honored law of Moses and their fathers
and at once embrace Christianity in its fulness?

John the Baptist foretold that this transition would be gradual when he
said, "He must increase, but I must decrease."[195]

Our Saviour was very tender of his disciples in their transition state
and is yet equally mindful of his sincere children who are still in the
same condition.[196] He said, I have many things to say unto you but you
cannot bear them now. Some things which he did say few can bear even
yet; still, we long to know what were those suppressed and holy things
which he did not say because his disciples could not bear them.

By the teaching of the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, we have
access ever-more to this sacred knowledge.[197] But only as we are able
to bear it will he teach us all things.[198] Not to the wise and prudent
of this world, but to babes in Christ.[199]


FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 178: "Christian Institutions" P. 208]

[Footnote 179: Jon 4.2]

[Footnote 180: Acts 22.16]

[Footnote 181: Acts 22.12; Acts 21.18, 26]