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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.
V. Of their tasting that the Lord is gracious, and their desiring the sincere Milk of the Word to grow thereby, From 1 Pet. 2.1,—3.
THE Apostle Peter had to do with Babes, as well as Paul (for such were the Jewish Converts generally) and having told them, Chap. 1.23. that they were born again, he doth in this Text exhort them to lay aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking (to which they being yet as carnal, were too prone, as was noted before) and as new born Babes to desire the sincere Milk of the Word, that they may grow thereby, if so be (or seeing and because) they have tasted that the Lord is gracious. This tasting is their coming to Christ and believing in him as the chief corner-stone, v. 4.6. and their growth is their being built up on him a spiritual House, &c. Vers. 5. which notes both the nature and inclination of these Babes, viz. to come to and believe in Christ, and withal to grow up in and to be built on him; that as he is precious or an honour to them, Vers. 7. so they may be precious or an honour to him, and show forth the virtues (and thereby the praises of him) who hath called them out of their darkness into his marvellous light, Vers. 9.
THE Apostle Peter had to do with Babes, as well as Paul (for such were the Jewish Converts generally) and having told them, Chap. 1.23. that they were born again, he doth in this Text exhort them to lay aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking (to which they being yet as carnal, were too prone, as was noted before) and as new born Babes to desire the sincere Milk of the Word, that they may grow thereby, if so be (or seeing and because) they have tasted that the Lord is gracious. This tasting is their coming to Christ and believing in him as the chief corner-stone, v. 4.6. and their growth is their being built up on him a spiritual House, &c. Vers. 5. which notes both the nature and inclination of these Babes, viz. to come to and believe in Christ, and withal to grow up in and to be built on him; that as he is precious or an honour to them, Vers. 7. so they may be precious or an honour to him, and shew forth the vertues (and thereby the praises of him) who hath called them out of their darkness into his marvellous light, Vers. 9.