XLIX. FEED THE LAMBS.

WHAT may be the cause why so much cloth so soon changeth colour? It is because it was never wet wadded, which giveth the fixation to a colour, and setteth it in the cloth.

What may be the reason why so many now-a-days are carried about with every wind of doctrine, even to scour every point in the compass round about? Surely it is because they were never well catechised in the principles of religion.

O for the ancient and primitive ordinance of catechising! every youth can preach, but he 236must be a man indeed who can profitably catechise.

Indeed, sermons are like whole joints for men to manage, but catechising is mincemeat, shred into questions and answers, (fit for children to eat, and easy for them to digest,) whilst the minister may also, for the edification of those of riper years, enlarge and dilate himself on both as he seeth just occasion.