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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
Class 1 › Part 3 › Section 2: II. Of their being as Carnal and walking as men.
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The occasion not given but taken was from Paul and Apollo, who planted and watered them; from hence they grow into more than emulations, for they were envious for their sakes (as Joshua was for Moses) and puffed up for one against another, Chap. 4.6. one was for Paul, ⟨p. 187⟩and another for Apollo, as being of them, and this was their carnality, Vers. 4. but wherein lay this carnality? were they more carnal in saying, I am one of Pauls Children, or one of Pauls Hearers, than Paul in calling himself their Father and Teacher? surely no, the carnality lay not in this. Paul calls Timothy and Titus his Sons, and faith of these Corinthians, Chap. 4.14, 15. that they were his Sons, that he had begotten them, that they were of him; and therefore in that relative, respective and resembling sense they might without carnality call him Father, and say they were of him. But the carnality lay in such things as these following.
The occasion not given but taken was from Paul and Apollo, who planted and watered them; from hence they grow into more than emulations, for they were envious for their sakes (as Joshuah was for Moses) and pussed up for one against another, Chap. 4.6. one was for Paul, ⟨p. 187⟩and another for Apollo, as being of them, and this was their carnality, Vers. 4. but wherein lay this carnality? were they more carnal in saying, I am one of Pauls Children, or one of Pauls Hearers, than Paul in calling himself their Father and Teacher? surely no, the carnality lay not in this. Paul calls Timothy and Titus his Sons, and faith of these Corinthians, Chap. 4.14, 15. that they were his Sons, that he had begotten them, that they were of him; and therefore in that relative, respective and resembling sense they might without carnality call him Father, and say they were of him. But the carnality lay in such things as these following.
1. They were more taken with the gifts and parts of either of these than with their office and graces: men have (as I may say) several humours, and they are most taken with that man, that takes and toucheth their humour most: Some that were for down-right plainness took Paul's part; others that were of a more nice and ticklish humour were taken with Apollo's Eloquence: for Paul came not with Oratory, Chap. 2.1,—4. but with plainness of speech,