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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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5. They are as carnal in this, that they take great exceptions at a little matter, they will take pet at nothing almost. If you be not of their way and follow them, they will take it ill even to the forbidding of doing Christs work, as the Disciples did, Mark 9.38. but they were as carnal in this, and therefore Christ forbids them to do any such thing, and on weighty reasons too, Vers. 39, 40. Babes in Christ are many of them of a touchy, peevish and sour humour. So when the Disciples met with colder entertainment than they looked for, they were for fire from Heaven, which was an evident sign that they knew not what spirit they were of, Luke 9.51,—55. When the Apostle Paul had made a promise to the Corinthians of coming to them, 1 Cor. 16.5,—7. and was disappointed, they presently accuse him of lightness and complement, which puts him upon Apologising for himself; 2 Cor. 1.15,—24. ⟨p. 195⟩and surely they are as babish as these were, that are so rash and censorious, that take pet and make exception without cause: they are as carnal.
5. They are as carnal in this, that they take great exceptions at a little matter, they will take pet at nothing almost. If you be not of their way and follow them, they will take it ill even to the forbidding of doing Christs work, as the Disciples did, Mark 9.38. but they were as carnal in this, and therefore Christ forbids them to do any such thing, and on weighty reasons too, Vers. 39, 40. Babes in Christ are many of them of a touchy, peevish and sowr humour. So when the Disciples met with colder entertainment than they lookt for, they were for fire from Heaven, which was an evident sign that they knew not what spirit they were of, Luke 9.51,—55. When the Apostle Paul had made a promise to the Corinthians of coming to them,