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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 second Use is for consolation to these Babes: •••ough I have in this part showed your lowness and weakness, yet I have a word two or three of Consolation for you. As,
The second Use is for consolation to these Babes: •••ough I have in this part shew'd your lowness and weakness, yet I have a word two or three of Consolation for you. As,
1. God will separate the precious from the vile, the Gold from the dross, he will pick out the best and make much of it, though it be but little: and for what thou judgest thy self, thou shalt not be judged of the Lord, as the Apostle tells his Babes, in 1 Cor. 11.31. in relation to their odd and ill way of attending upon that ⟨p. 148⟩[…] ⟨p. 149⟩[…] ⟨p. 150⟩great Ordinance of the Lords Feast, or Supper, as we tender it. He will put thy tears into his Bottle, he will remember thy thinking on his name, when others said, It is in vain to serve God, and what profit is there that we have kept his Ordinances, Mal. 3.14,—18. Thou hast toiled all day and caught nothing, yet at his command thou hast cast in thy Net again, and hast caught a great draught, but some are good and some are bad; why, though it be so, yet God will separate the good from the bad, he will gather the good into his Vessels, and cast the bad away, that I may allude to the story of Peter's Fishing, joined with what is said, Matth. 13.47, 48