A64833:455
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.
SECT. 1.
1. TH•t these little Children (who knew the Father by interest and experience) are of a very loving (which is a very lovely) disposition and […], and consequently are of a very ingenuous, affable and obliging, yea of a winning conversation, […] & magnus amiss amor, Love is the whetstone and lords•ene of love; they therefore being bel••ved of the Father, and this Love being made […] and assured to them, they cannot but […] inwardly and expressively, most dearly and significantly love and show their love to their •• the• and to their Brethren, 1 Joh. 4.19 […] ⟨p. 303⟩Love begets Love, and the manifestation of Love begets the manifestation of Love. Seeing they lie in his bosom, under the influences of his smiles and kisses, they cannot but be enamoured and inflamed with Love. The Love of God shed abroad in their heares, causeth their Love to be shed and spread abroad toward him and his, as 1 Joh. 4.8-19,-21. Their love is second to his first Love, and bears a kind of proportion to it, as may be seen
1. TH•t these little Children (who knew the Father by interest and experience) are of a very loving (which is a very lovely) disposition and 〈…〉, and consequently are of a very ingenuous, assible and obliging, yea of a winning conversation, 〈…〉 & magnus am•is amor, Love is the whetstone and lords•ene of love; they therefore being belved of the Father, and this Love being made and assured to them, they cannot but inwardly and expressively, most dearly and significartly love and shew their love to their the and to their Brethren,