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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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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, Act. 18.11. and had written to them two or three times, and was yet ready to come again to correct their B•bish-carnality, as 2 Cor. 12.14. with 20.21. and Chap. 13.1, 2. Our Saviour upbraids his Disciples with this, that he had been so long with them, and yet they were ignorant of the Father and of him, Jeh. 14.9. and another time asks them (as one grieved and angry too) How long shall I be with you? will ye never learn, &c. 'Tis with this that the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews twits them also, that for their time and standing they might have been Teachers, and yet were still to learn, yea and stood in need of being taught their Primer over and again, Heb. 5.12. When men have been planted in Gods Hort-yard and have been often watered with the dew of Heaven, and he comes year after year for Fruit, yet finds none, this calls for deep Humiliation. To be old […] profession, and novices in knowledge and practice is that which should lay us low.
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, Act. 18.11. and had written to them two or three times, and was yet ready to come again to correct their B•bish-carnality, as 2 Cor. 12.14. with 20.21. and Chap. 13.1, 2. Our Saviour upbraids his Disciples with this, that he had been so long with them, and yet they were ignorant of the Father and of him, Jeh. 14.9. and another time asks them (as one grieved and angry too) How long shall I be with you? will ye never learn, &c. 'Tis with this that the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews twits them also, that for their time and standing they might have been Teachers, and yet were still to learn, yea and stood in need of being taught their Primer over and again,