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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 5 › Section 4: One Temptation more which they undergo and conquer too.
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2. Say the Young men, the Texts which thou hast quoted, do not seem to speak of every or any sin in any degree, but of a special Sin, viz. hating or not loving of the Brethren, which they that are born of God cannot be guilty of, 1 Joh. 4.20. but thou knowest, Satan, and that to thy vexation, that I love the Brethren, and am past from Death to Life. To this purpose see what's said in the Treatise of Babes, in the Chapter of their love to the Brethren. Or else it may refer to the sin unto death, 1 Joh. 5.16, 17, 18. Yet,
3. If the Text may not be restrained to that, I can say further that I do not live in sin nor make a trade of sin as thou dost, I am no sin-maker as thou art: I sin not as they that are of thee who workest in the Children of disobedience that they may fulfil the lusts and wills of the flesh, Ephes. 2.1,—3. and of such (thou canst not deny but) the quoted Texts do speak.
3. If the Text may not be restrain'd to that, I can say further that I do not live in sin nor make a trade of sin as thou dost, I am no sin-maker as thou art: I sin not as they that are of thee who workest in the Children of disobedience that they may fulfil the lusts and wills of the flesh, Ephes. 2.1,—3. and of such (thou canst not deny but) the quoted Texts do speak.
4. I can say yet more in a true sense, as the Apostle doth,