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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.
7. Would you attain to perfection, be patient then: Babes are apt to be impatient and peevish, for which they have been already noted; but impatience hinders growth; as ever therefore you would be perfect, let patience have its perfect work, then shall ye be perfect, entire and lack nothing (viz. of perfection) Jam. 1.4. Patience is a completing and perfecting grace, as God speaks to Abraham, ⟨p. 246⟩Gen. 17.1. Walk before me and be th•• perfect, that is, not only sincere (as 'tis in the Margin) but patient; wait yet a while longer till I give thee seed by Sarah, perfect thy hitherto waiting, by waiting to the end. So the good-ground-hearers bringing forth fruit with patience, is opposed to the Thorny-ground-hearers not bringing forth fruit to perfection, Luke 18.14, 15. so that patience doth not a little contribute to the bringing forth perfect fruit, and to our growing up to a perfect stature. For,
7. Would you attain to perfection, be patient then: Babes are apt to be impatient and peevish, for which they have been already noted; but impatiency hinders growth; as ever therefore you would be perfect, let patience have its perfect work, then shall ye be persect, intire and lack nothing (viz. of perfection) Jam. 1.4. Patience is a compleating and perfecting grace, as God speaks to Abraham, ⟨p. 246⟩Gen. 17.1. Walk before me and be th•• perfect, that is, not only sincere (as 'tis in the Margent) but patient; wait yet a while longer till I give thee seed by Sarah, perfect thy hitherto waiting, by waiting to the end. So the good-ground-hearers bringing forth fruit with patience, is opposed to the Thorny-ground-hearers not bringing forth fruit to perfection,