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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. 3. A Continuation.
2. GOD hath been pleased to pick out such to show his fatherly love to, as have lain under deep humiliations for sinning against God, though it have not been of long continuance, and which it would have been, had not he made himself known as their Father, i. e. loving of them: When the Prodigal came to this, that he was pinched with the sense of having sinned against his Father (as well as felt the sad effects of it, in being tantum non almost dead) the Father runs to meet him, and falls on his neck and kisseth him; thus he knew the Father and had assurance of his Love. When the Spouse had undergone an hard winter of humiliation, and hid her self in the clefts and secret places, as being ashamed to lift up her face or voice to God, she then hears the joyful sound, Rise up my Love, my fair one, my Dove and come away, Cant. 2.10,—15. and in the next sixteenth Verse she concludes (as one that had assurance) My beloved is mine and I am his.
2. GOD hath been pleased to pick out such to shew his fatherly love to, as have lain under deep humiliations for sinning against God, though it have not been of long continuance, and which it would have been, had not he made himself known as their Father, i. e. loving of them: When the Prodigal came to this, that he was pincht with the sense of having sinned against his Father (as well as felt the sad effects of it, in being tantum non almost dead) the Father runs to meet him, and falls on his neck and kisseth him; thus he knew the Father and had assurance of his Love. When the Spouse had undergone an hard winter of humiliation, and hid her self in the clefts and secret places, as being ashamed to lift up her face or voice to God, she then hears the joyful sound, Rise up my Love, my fair one, my Dove and come away, Cant. 2.10,—15. and in the next sixteenth Verse she concludes (as one that had assurance) My beloved is mine and I am his.