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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 2: The SECOND CLASSIS IN THE School of CHRIST, Viz. Little CHILDREN.
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.
The SECOND CLASSIS IN THE School of CHRIST, Viz. Little CHILDREN.
From 1 John 2.13. I write unto you little Children, because ye have known the Father.
Having formerly spoken to the first and lowest Classis or Form of Saints, viz. Babes in Christ from several other Texts, I now proceed to treat of the second Classis, or degree, or rank of Christians, who are called Little Children: which Title is not used here (as sometime 'tis elsewhere) for a name common ⟨p. 250⟩to all the Saints, for in that sense a Babe is a Child and a Father is but a Child; but here it notes a peculiar state, characterized and discovered by a peculiar attainment, as was cleared in the former Treatise, where I gave a general account of this Text: and to which I must refer the Reader, as for many other things.
HAving formerly spoken to the first and lowest Classis or Form of Saints, viz. Babes in Christ from several other Texts, I now proceed to treat of the second Classis, or degree, or rank of Christians, who are called Little Children: which Title is not used here (as sometime 'tis elsewhere) for a name common ⟨p. 250⟩to all the Saints, for in that sense a Babe is a Child and a Father is but a Child; but here it notes a peculiar state, characterized and discovered by a peculiar attainment, as was cleared in the former Treatise, where I gave a general account of this Text: and to which I must refer the Reader, as for many other things.