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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.
'Tis said of Manasseh (though he had been desperately wicked) yet that when he was in affliction he besought the Lord, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers, 2 Chron. 33.12. and 'tis presently added in the 13th Verse that God heard his supplication, &c. Then, and then Manasseh knew that the ⟨p. 263⟩Lord he was God, viz. gracious and forgiving sins. David no sooner confessed his sin (as against God) he doubles it, Against thee, against thee, Psal. 51.4. but God forgave him, and told him of it too, Psal. 32.5. with 2 Sam. 12.13. see more to this purpose in Isa. 57.15. and 66.2. Jer. 31.20. all which doth confirm what David said in this case, Psal. 51.17. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise, which is a [Greek or Hebrew] a diminutive expression, but full of signification; for 'tis as much as if he had said, thou wilt cherish it, revive it and make it glad with the joy of thy Salvation. This lays a great obligation upon persons what to be, and gives them great encouragements when they are, though they be greatly and deeply humbled.
'Tis said of Manasseh (though he had been desperately wicked) yet that when he was in affliction he besought the Lord, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers, 2 Chron. 33.12. and 'tis presently added in the 13th Verse that God heard his supplication, &c. Then, and then Manasseh knew that the ⟨p. 263⟩Lord he was God, viz. gracious and forgiving sins. David no sooner confest his sin (as against God) he doubles it, Against thee, against thee,