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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. It establisheth the heart, makes it steadfast and immovable, which helps to abounding and growth, as appears by the places where they are joined together, 1 Cor. 15.58. 2 Pet. 3.17, 18. While persons hang loose and are tossed to and fro (as Babes are apt to be, Eph. 4.14.) they are not in a growing condition: but patience doth settle, fix and establish the soul, as the Apostle tells us, Jam. 5.8. Be patient, stablish your hearts, i.e. stablish them by patience: For, as 'tis hinted in a parallel place, Luke 21.19. In patience we possess our souls; when as an impatient man is wavering and unstable, is uncertain, inconstant and double-minded, ever doubtful and in suspense, and therefore receives little if any thing from the Lord, Jam. 1.6,—8.
1. It establisheth the heart, makes it stedfast and immoveable, which helps to abounding and growth, as appears by the places where they are joyned together, 1 Cor. 15.58. 2 Pet. 3.17, 18. While persons hang loose and are tossed to and fro (as Babes are apt to be, Eph. 4.14.) they are not in a growing conditior: but patience doth settle, fix and establish the soul, as the Apostle tells us, Jam. 5.8. Be patient, stablish your hearts, i.e. stablish them by patience: For, as 'tis hinted in a parallel place, Luke 21.19. In patience we possess our souls; when as an impatient man is wavering and unstable, is uncertain, inconstant and double-minded, ever doubtful and in suspense, and therefore receives little if any thing from the Lord,