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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
Class 1 › Part 4: IV. The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgement.
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I intend not any large or long Discourse about the Resurrection and Judgement to come, but only so much as serves to our present purpose, viz. to show the attainment of Babes, ⟨p. 154⟩in relation to which I shall briefly inquire, 1. What Resurrection and Judgement is here meant. And 2. how the belief of this doth influence Babes, and what that attainment is which results from it.
I intend not any large or long Discourse about the Resurrection and Judgement to come, but only so much as serves to our present purpose, viz. to shew the attainment of Babes, ⟨p. 154⟩in relation to which I shall briefly inquire, 1. What Resurrection and Judgement is here meant. And 2. how the belief of this doth influence Babes, and what that attainment is which results from it.
1. What Resurrection, &c. is here meant. We may in the first place here understand the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead, by which we are begotten again to a lively hope, or hope o• life, 1 Pet. 1.3. And when the Apostle reckons up the grounds of our rejoicing in Christ Jesus, as being by him freed from condemnation, he puts a rather upon his Resurrection, Rom. 8.34. And when he writes to the Corinthian-Babes about the Resurrection, he begin with this as the foundation of all, that Christ died and rose again, 1 Cor. 15.3, 4. and thence proves the general Resurrection, Vers. 12, &c. Agreeably and in a correspondent sense to this, by the Eternal Judgement, we may understand that the Judgement concerning mens Eternal conditions is committed to Christ: that he (who is raised and is the Resurrection) will raise the dead, and Judge the dead to their Eternal states after he hath raised them; see