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Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians
Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians : I. Babes, II. Little children, III. Young men, IV. Fathers : with their several characteristical differences and attainments : also the doctrines proper to be taught to each of them : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning.Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians : I. Babes, II. Little children, III. Young men, IV. Fathers : with their several characteristical differences and attainments : also the doctrines proper to be taught to each of them : being the substance of many sermons preach'd many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. If thou never go further than to be a Babe all thy days, (suppose that) yet thou art gone far enough to be saved: by Faith we are saved, as safe as if we were saved. There is a blessing for this Faith, as before, Matth. 16.17. and Justification for this Faith, as before, Luke 18.14. and God loves such Believers, as before from John 16.27. 'Tis not a little remarkable, that blessedness is annexed to the lowest as well as to the highest Form in the School of Christ, as in the Beatitudes, Mat. 5. and to these Hebrew Babes the Apostle saith, I hope better things of you (than of some that had been enlightened, &c.) and things that accompany or contain salvation (though you be but Babes) Heb. 6.9, 10. Salvation is not annexed to degrees (as such) but to truth of grace (as such) in the lowest degree, ⟨p. 124⟩John 6.37. him that is but coming.
2. If thou never go further than to be a Babe all thy daies, (suppose that) yet thou art gone far enough to be saved: by Faith we are saved, as safe as if we were saved. There is a blessing for this Faith, as before, Matth. 16.17. and Justification for this Faith, as before, Luke 18.14. and God loves such Believers, as before from John 16.27. 'Tis not a little remarkable, that blessedness is annexed to the lowest as well as to the highest Form in the School of Christ, as in the Beatitudes, Mat. 5. and to these Hebrew Babes the Apostle saith, I hope better things of you (than of some that had been inlightened, &c.) and things that accompany or contain salvation (though you be but Babes)