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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 2: II. Of their being as Carnal and walking as men.
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II. Of their being as Carnal and walking as men.
These poor Babes are but a degree above Carnal men; though they be not carnal, yet as carnal: Many of them are so, for (as I have once and again hinted) there are degrees among them, and they are not acted nor do act all alike: some of the Babes are less defective and less carnal than others. Of the Corinthians the Apostle speaks, not only that they were Babes and not spiritual, but that they were as carnal, and walked as men; there was but little difference (in many things) between them and mere carnal men, men in and walking in and after the flesh, 1 Cor. 3.1,—3. This will appear in (alas!) but too many particulars and instances. As,
THese poor Babes are but a degree above Carnal men; though they be not carnal, yet as carnal: Many of them are so, for (as I have once and again hinted) there are degrees among them, and they are not acted nor do act all alike: some of the Babes are less defective and less carnal than others. Of the Corinthians the Apostle speaks, not only that they were Babes and not spiritual, but that they were as carnal, and walkt as men; there was but little difference (in many things) between them and meer carnal men, men in and walking in and after the flesh, 1 Cor. 3.1,—3. This will appear in (alas!) but too many particulars and instances. As,
1. They were as carnal in this, that there was among them, envy, strife, and division or faction, Vers. 3. and because of this which was undeniable, the Apostle appeals to them and makes them Judges, whether they were not carnal and walked as men, viz. in the flesh, or according to men and not according to God, as Grotius expresseth it: Are ye not carnal? ye cannot deny it, 'tis undeniable; You cannot deny that ye are envious, &c. it witnesseth (and is not only witnessed by others) to your faces, and therefore you cannot deny but you are carnal; for such things are the