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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.
IT must be remembered that these Young men are taken out from among the little Children, who have received the witness of the Spirit that they are the Children of God; and about this thing is the dispute between the Devil and them, viz. whether they be the Children of God or not: and so some understand that place (which speaks in Military language as if it properly referred to the state and condition of these Young men) Ephes. 6.12. reading that which we render in high or heavenly places, about heavenly things, viz. our Title to Sonship and so to Heaven; this is the thing which the Spirit witnessed to their spirits, this the Devil calls in question and offers arguments against it: but all these arguments do the Young men overcome by the Word of God abiding in them, which strengthens their Faith to give glory to God and his Spirit as the faithful and true witness, notwithstanding all the cunning insinuations of wiles and the Devil.
IT must be remembred that these Young men are taken out from among the little Children, who have received the witness of the Spirit that they are the Children of God; and about this thing is the dispute between the Devil and them, viz. whether they be the Children of God or not: and so some understand that place (which speaks in Military language as if it properly referred to the state and condition of these Young men) Ephes. 6.12. reading that which we render in high or heavenly places, about heavenly things, viz. our Title to Sonship and so to Heaven; this is the thing which the Spirit witnessed to their spirits, this the Devil calls in question and offers arguments against it: but all these arguments do the Young men overcome by the Word of God abiding in them, which strengthens their Faith to give glory to God and his Spirit as the faithful and true witness, notwithstanding all the cunning insinuations of wiles and the Devil.
To clear this up a little more, I humbly offer this to consideration, That the Saints (members of Christs body) are all of them more or less conformable to his Image, and to the