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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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7. And lastly, remember and forget not this, that though thou go to Heaven 'twill c•st thee dear before thou come there, that thou hast been as and so carnal: 'twill bring down thy ⟨p. 238⟩grey hairs with sorrow to the Grave. Thou mayest be saved, yet so as by fire, as Paul tells his Babes, 1 Ger. 3.13.—15. This fl•sh and blood of thine cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, thou must through a Purgatory of water […] fire, of Repentance and Zeal, before thou […] thine inheritance among them which are sanctified by Faith in Jesus. Be thou therefore humbled betimes, and […] not the sense and weight of all this to come upon thee when thou art on a death-bed, lest they latter and know more sorrow than thy beginning, and a worse thing befall thee then, than there did all thy life before. Be humbled for being as carnal. And,
7. And lastly, remember and forget not this, that though thou go to Heaven 'twill c•st thee dear before thou come there, that thou hast been as and so carnal: 'twill bring down thy ⟨p. 238⟩gray hairs with sorrow to the Grave. Thou maist be saved, yet so as by fire, as Paul tells his Babes, 1 Ger. 3.13.—15. This fl•sh and blood of thine cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, thou must through a Purgatory of water 〈…〉 fire, of Repentance and Z•al, before thou 〈…〉 thine inheritance among them which are •a•ctified by Faith in J•sus. Be thou therefore humbled betimes, and 〈…〉 not the sense and weight of all this to come upon thee when thou art on a death-bed, lest they latter and know more sorrow than thy beginning, and a worse thing befall thee then, than there did all thy life before. Be humbled for being as carnal. And,