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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.
SECT 1.
TO know the Father is sometime no more than to know or to have the knowledge of God: For, as Christ Jesus is known by the name of Lord, so God by the name of Father, 1 Cor. 8.5, 6. and this name Father is in the general no more than Creator, Isa. 64.8. Now many have not this knowledge of God, 1 Cor. 15.34. Joh. 8.19. and 8.54, 55. Joh. 16.2, 3. There are irreligious and wicked not knowing the Lord, as 'tis said of Eli's Sons, 1 Sam. 2.12. nor do they know that Jesus Christ was sent of God; But this knowledge the Babes in Christ have, they know the Lord, much more do the little Children; yet this is not all, there is more meant than this.
Beside, to know the Father is not only to know that God is a Father, that he hath such a name and attribute; God is often called the Fher in Scripture: The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,