Milk for Babes and Meat for Strong Men
Stuart Masters continues his look at early Quaker tracts
Previously, we considered James Nayler’s tract The Lamb’s War against the Man of Sin, which was written in prison following his brutal punishment for blasphemy (9 October). Milk for Babes and Meat for Strong Men was also written at this time and published posthumously in 1661. The title is a reference to the New Testament book Hebrews:
…for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. But meat is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. (Hebrews 5:13-14)
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