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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 3 › Chapter 3: How they come by this Strength. viz. By the Word of God abiding in them.
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.
2. It may refer to the promises of God which are so often called by the name of Word, thy Word, the Word of Promise, which is all one with the Word of God; to this Abraham's Faith did refer, and wherein he was so strong, Rom. 4.20. and truly the Word of Promise being in and abiding in us doth not a little contribute to our strength and victory. By these we are not only made partakers of a divine nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. but obliged, assisted and quickened to perfect holiness, 2 Cor. 7.1. notwithstanding Temptations from without or within.
2. It may refer to the promises of God which are so often called by the name of Word, thy Word, the Word of Promise, which is all one with the Word of God; to this Abraham's Faith did reser, and wherein he was so strong, Rom. 4.20. and truly the Word of Promise being in and abiding in us doth not a little contribute to our strength and victory. By these we are not only made partakers of a divine nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. but obliged, assisted and quickened to perfect holiness, 2 Cor. 7.1. notwithstanding Temptations from without or within.
3. By the Word of God may here be understood, The witness of the Spirit bearing witness with their spirits, that they are the Children of God: This testimony abiding in them (as it did in Christ) doth strengthen them to overcome the evil one. When they were little Children they received this Testimony, and being now called to the War, this Word as well as Work of God abideth in them and makes them strong to the Battle. So that here is Father, Son, and Spirit (the Word of God in each respect) standing by them, and abiding in them, to strengthen them, to deliver them out of the mouth of the Lion, to keep them from every evil work, and to preserve them to the heavenly Kingdom, to use the Apostles