The flesh as it delights not in good, if it hear any good readily forgets it; but the evil that it has it retains ever. But a little while before Christ took a little child and said, “Except ye become as this child, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven,” [Matt 18:3] yet His disciples, presently forgetting this innocence of children, now forbid children, as unworthy to come to Christ.
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