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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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2. They were as carnal in that they were proud of being in Church communion, though they had and kept communion with very unclean persons (and their lump was leavened) That they did so is clear from 1 Cor. 5. and yet were puffed up, Vers. 2. and gloried, Vers. 6. they boasted of being in fellowship, though it were with gross and unheard of sinners, Vers. 1. which puts the Apostle upon such Exhortations as we find in Vers. 11. and 2 Cor. 6.14,—When persons can content themselves with and be proud of such common, profane (and therefore fulsome and offensive) communion at large, 'tis an argument of their being as carnal: ⟨p. 192⟩when content with Ordinances disorderly administered, they are as carnal, 1 Cor. 11.17,—34. when humane partitions steal the name of a Church, and mixed participations the name of communion, and Christians can please themselves with and glory in it, they are as carnal. Be not therefore unequally yoked; and if any that is called Brother be a Fornicator, &c. with such an one don't you eat.
2. They were as carnal in that they were proud of being in Church communion, though they had and kept communion with very unclean persons (and their lump was leavened) That they did so is clear from 1 Cor. 5. and yet were pussed up, Vers. 2. and gloried, Vers. 6. they boasted of being in fellowship, though it were with gross and unheard of sinners, Vers. 1. which puts the Apoille upon such Exhortations as we find in Vers. 11. and 2 Cor. 6.14,—When persons can content themselves with and be proud of such common, prophane (and therefore fulsome and offensive) communion at large, 'tis an argument of their being as carnal: ⟨p. 192⟩when content with Ordinances disorderly administred, they are as carnal,