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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
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Indeed, 'tis as hard a thing to live out of our selves and fetch all from another, to say as Paul, It is not I that live, but Christ liveth in me, as 'tis not to live to our selves but to another. Babes act and speak as if they lived on their own stock, and boast too often as if they had not received, as the Corinthians did, 1 Cor. 4.7. This principle of deriving all sanctification from Christ is not presently and distinctly known to all believers; 'tis probable that the Disciples understood it not, till Christ taught it them in that Sermon, John 15. and this indeed is the case of Babes, for though to ⟨p. 181⟩them Christ be made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, yet they are unskilful and inexpert as to the derivation of it, and to have particular recourse to him for it. Again,
Indeed, 'tis as hard a thing to live out of our selves and fetch all from another, to say as Paul, It is not I that live, but Christ liveth in me, as 'tis not to live to our selves but to another. Babes act and speak as if they lived en their own stock, and boast too often as if they had not received, as the Corinthians did, 1 Cor. 4.7. This principle of deriving all sanctification from Christ is not presently and distinctly known to all believers; 'tis probable that the Disciples understood it not, till Christ taught it them in that Sermon, John 15. and this indeed is the case of Babes, for though to ⟨p. 181⟩them Christ be made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, yet they are unskilful and inexpert as to the derivation of it, and to have particular recourse to him for it. Again,