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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.
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.
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 Acts 10.41, 42. and 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1. But for fear (and indeed I do fear) that Babes may not have so distinct and exact a knowledge of this, as other Saints have, I shall pitch upon another sense and fix in it. 'Tis this,
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 rejoycing 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,