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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. I.
AT the beginning of this Chapter I began to show how they came to know the Father, or (which is equivalent and all one) that they are the Children of God and dearly beloved of him; and that was by (not barely the working of the Spirit in them, but after and over and above that, by) the Spirit witnessing to them, clearing up that work to be of God which is wrought in their own hearts and spirits, Rom. 8.18. Here are two witnesses (and both Spirits) that out of the mouth of two knowing witnesses, this thing may be established: our spirit affirms, and the Spirit of God confirms. Our spirit knows what acts and workings are wrought in us and by us; our spirit affirms, that such Repentance, Faith, Love, &c. there is in us, but whether this be wrought according to God our spirit by it self cannot tell without and until the Spirit of God bear witness to it, that it is according to the Will of God, Rom. 8.26, 27. with 1 Cor. 2.10, 11, 12. of which I have given some account ⟨p. 268⟩above in this, and more in the former Treatise of Babes. From whence I infer these two things.
AT the beginning of this Chapter I began to shew how they came to know the Father, or (which is equivalent and all one) that they are the Children of God and dearly beloved of him; and that was by (not barely the working of the Spirit in them, but after and over and above that, by) the Spirit witnessing to them, clearing up that work to be of God which is wrought in their own hearts and spirits,