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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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2. Be the more humbled considering that many of the more refined sort of Heathens would have scorned to be so carnal as some of you: the Apostle upbraids the Corinthian Babes and thereby provokes them to shame by this very thing, 1 Cor. 5.1, 2. It is reported commonly (and in this, fama non est mendax, report is no Liar) that there is Fornication among you, and such Fornication, as is not so much as named (recorded of any) amongst the Gentiles, that one should have his Fathers Wife, and yet ye are puffed up and have not ⟨p. 235⟩rather mourned. It should deeply humble Christians to be guilty of that which the Gentiles are not and scorn to be.
2. Be the more humbled considering that many of the more refined sort of Heathens would have scorned to be so carnal as some of you: the Apostle upbraids the Corinthian Babes and thereby provokes them to shame by this very thing, 1 Cor. 5.1, 2. It is reported commonly (and in this, fama non est mendax, report is no Lyar) that there is Fornication among you, and such Fornication, as is not so much as named (recorded of any) amongst the Gentiles, that one should have his Fathers Wife, and yet ye are puffed up and have not ⟨p. 235⟩rather mourned. It should deeply humble Christians to be guilty of that which the Gentiles are not and scorn to be.
3. Let your Humiliation and Humility be the more, that ye have been better taught, Ephes. 4.17,—21. and that for a long time, Paul had spent a year and an half among these Corinthians,