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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. VII, and VIII. How the Word of God strengthens you, and how strength conduceth to the Victory.
Having already cleared the Young mans victory to be by strength, and his strength to be from the Word of God abiding in him, I shall join these two Chapters or Heads together, and show therein how the Word of God conduceth to their strength, and how their strength conduceth to the victory.
HAving already clear'd the Young mans victory to be by strength, and his strength to be from the Word of God abiding in him, I shall joyn these two Chapters or Heads together, and shew therein how the Word of God conduceth to their strength, and how their strength conduceth to the victory.
As we should faint if we did not believe, Psal. 27.13. and that fainting would prove our strength of Faith to be but small, Prov. 24.10. So our Faith would faint were it not upheld and quickened by the Word of God: this I might evince from the several accounts I gave of the Word of God, and how it might be understood ⟨p. 360⟩in the Text in relation to the Young mens strength and victory; but I shall now consider it only in the general, which will be applicable enough to each particular acceptation of it instanced in before. To this purpose 'tis not a little observable, how David (who was one of Gods Worthies) doth celebrate the Word of God in relation to this very thing, especially in