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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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That Babes do in the general believe that there shall be a Resurrection of all persons unto Judgement, and a Judgement of all persons to an Eternal (good or evil) state, (and ⟨p. 155⟩therefore 'tis called an Eternal Judgement) according to Joh. 5.28, 29. The time is coming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his (the Son of mans) voice and shall come forth, they that have done good to the Resurrection of Life, and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation (see Matth. 25.31,—46. Rom. 2.6,—16. 2 Cor. 5,—10.) They shall come forth, there is the Resurrection; to life or damnation, there is the Eternal Judgement. There are many special things about the Resurrection, &c. which the Babes are not very capable of, and of which I shall say nothing now, but this, they do believe in the general that such a thing there will infallibly be as a future Eternal state of happiness or misery to men, according to what they have done in this life: and they that believe not this are but falsely called Christians, or by the favour of a Synecdoche, which puts a part for the whole. A Saint not believing a life to come, is no less than a contradiction.
Object. But perhaps 'twill be objected that a man may be in Christ though but a Babe and as carnal, and yet not believe this doctrine of the Resurrection, for among these Corinthian-Babes some it seems did not own it, 1 Cor. 15.12.