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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
Class 2 › Chapter 5 › Section 2: An Exhortation to the little Children in several particulars.
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2. Now you know the Father and his everlasting Love towards you, take heed you do not neglect the Son of his Love and the righteousness which is by him; God expects that you honour the Son as you do the Father, Joh. 5.23. for you are not justified by the F• theirs Grace and Love, but in conjunction with and through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ, Rom. 3.24. the Father indeed chose you, and he blesseth you with all spiritual blessings, but still 'tis in Christ Jesus, Ephes. 1.2,—5. The everlasting Consolation is from not only the Father but the Son also, who hath loved you, 2 Thes. 2.16. be sure therefore that you do not so eye the love of the Father, as ⟨p. 320⟩to look off from the Son, who is jointly engaged with the Father, in all the transactions of their happiness. When the Bather was advanced he forgot Joseph (to which that seems to be an allusion, Amos 6.6.) so some are apt to do by Jesus Christ, though 'twere by him they came to all their honour, if at least come they be as they pretend.
2. Now you know the Father and his everlasting Love towards you, take heed you do not neglect the Son of his Love and the righteousness which is by him; God expects that you honour the Son as you do the Father, Joh. 5.23. for you are not justified by the F• thers Grace and Love, but in conjunction with and through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ, Rom. 3.24. the Father indeed chose you, and he blesseth you with all spiritual blessings, but still 'tis in Christ Jesus, Ephes. 1.2