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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.
CHAP. IV. Showing what or who is meant by the wicked one.
CHAP. IV. Shewing what or who is meant by the wicked one.
THE evil, or the evil one] this expression, especially if read in the Neuter Gender ([Greek or Hebrew]) is meant of more evils than one, yea of all evil; and so it may be understood in that Prayer which our Lord taught, Matth. 6.13. and that Prayer which our Lord made and Prayed, Joh. 17.15. and so in Rom. 12.9. 1 Joh. 5.19. but here it seems to be of the Masculine Gender ([Greek or Hebrew]) and refers to one, viz. him who is eminently and principally the evil one, or the wicked one, whether spoken of a man or of the Devil. It is used to denote and set out a notorious wicked man that hath no fellow in wickedness, a Devil incarnate, an Antichrist, as 'tis in 2 Thes. 2.3,—9. for though the word ([Greek or Hebrew]) be not there, yet ([Greek or Hebrew]) an equivalent word is there; Hesychius makes these words to be synonymous, [Greek or Hebrew], all noting a most flagitious, profligate and terribly wicked person, as this word doth, 1 Cor. 5.13. but it doth most usually refer to the Devil himself, who is ([Greek or Hebrew]) the wicked one, so eminently as none is beside him; and this may be observed to be undoubtedly true by comparing these following Texts, Matth. 13.19. with ⟨p. 339⟩