A64833:156
Venning's remains, or, Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians, I. babes, II.…
Venning's remains, or, 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 by Ralph Venning and fitted by him for the press before his death.
London: printed for John Hancock senior and junior, 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.
The Object of this Faith (you see) is God, viz. the Father, not in opposition to, ⟨p. 109⟩yet in di•••ction from the Son; for these Judaizing Christians, who were generally Babes, kept to the Old Testament Spirit, which was a Faith towards God, not without a respect to the Messiah; for as the Father and the Son act in the Soul (no man coming unto the Father but by the Son, nor any man coming to the Son, unless the Father draw him) so the Soul acts towards the Father and the Son, but yet mostly to the Father, as looking on him to be the person mostly offended, and with whom it stands in most need of reconciliation, and therefore makes its principal address to the Father, yet by Christ, or for the Lords sake, as Daniel speaks, chap. 9.17. And upon this account the distinction is (and better known to grown Saints) that Repentance is towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20.21. or ([Greek or Hebrew]) unto God and unto Christ, as the words are. But the Babes being in great part ignorant of the union between the Father and the Son, in this work of grace to Salvation, as 'tis hinted to Philip, &c. Joh. 14.8.—11. and not considering that they are to honour the Son as they honour the Father, Joh. 5.23. they usually let their Faith and its motions to be most towards God, without such distinct considerations of Christ, as united to and in conjunction with the Father, as the Object of Faith.
The Object of this Faith (you see) is God, viz. the Father, not in opposition to, ⟨p. 109⟩yet in di•••ction from the Son; for these Judaizing Christians, who were generally Babes, kept to the Old Testament Spirit, which was a Faith towards God, not without a respect to the Messiah; for as the Father and the Son act in the Soul (no man coming unto the Father but by the Son, nor any man coming to the Son, unless the Father draw him) so the Soul acts towards the Father and the Son, but yet mostly to the Father, as looking on him to be the person mostly offended, and with whom it stands in most need of reconciliatior, and therefore makes its principal address to the Father, yet by Christ, or for the Lords sake, as Daniel speaks, chap. 9.17. And upon this account the distinction is (and better known to grown Saints) that Repentance is towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.