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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.
5. They Taste it in this, That God encourageth them to come by many great and precious promises, Isa. 55.1, 2, 3. Matth. 11.28,—30, &c. Yea he swears to them as he lives that he delights not in the death of a sinner, but that he should return and live.
5. They Taste it in this, That God incourageth them to come by many great and precious promises, Isa. 55.1, 2, 3. Matth. 11.28,—30, &c. Yea he swears to them as he lives that he delights not in the death of a sinner, but that he should return and live.
6. That God hath knocked so often and waited ⟨p. 165⟩so long to lead them by his goodness, patience, and long suffering to Repentance, that though they have not answered unless it were surlily and sinfully, we will not come; that though they have put his patience to it, yet that he should knock and wait, this gives them a further Taste, that the Lord is gracious.
6. That God hath knockt so often and waited ⟨p. 165⟩so long to lead them by his goodness, patience, and long suffering to Repentance, that though they have not answered unless it were surlily and sinfully, we will not come; that though they have put his patience to it, yet that he should knock and wait, this gives them a further Taste, that the Lord is gracious.