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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
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8. That they have been enabled (with the Prodigal) to prosecute this conviction, to arise and go, to repent from dead works, and to make toward God by Faith, they Taste his grace in it, for Repentance and Faith are both the gifts of a gracious God to them, Act. 5.31. Ephes. 2.1,—8.
9. They Taste that the Lord is gracious in giving them a Spirit of Prayer and Supplication, that they can bow their knees and beg not only the pardon of their sins, but the sanctifying of their Souls. In this they Taste his grace.
10. They have a Taste of his being gracious in that they are bid welcome when they come, and that not only his Saints receive them into the brotherhood and fellowship to be free of then company, but that now and then God ⟨p. 166⟩smiles on them too, and is pleased to kiss them with the kisses of his mouth, and to vouchsafe them some fellowship with himself.
10. They have a Taste of his being gracious in that they are bid welcom when they come, and that not only his Saints receive them into the brotherhood and fellowship to be free of then company, but that now and then God ⟨p. 166⟩smiles on them too, and is pleased to kiss them with the kisses of his mouth, and to vouchsafe them some fellowship with himself.