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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 › Chapter 5 › Section 2: An Exhortation to the little Children in several particulars.
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3. Grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption, Ephes. 4.30. If you be not kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, ye do not only forget God and Christ, for whose sake God forgave you, but you grieve the Spirit, who brought you this good news; for all these are connected, together with Vers. 30. and so is that also, Vers. 29. if you do not edify one another, and in your communications minister Grace to them that hear you. If God should (as it were) call back the witness of his Spirit and leave thee to walk in darkness, in what a woe-state wouldst thou be; 'twill in some respects be far worse with thee than 'twas before, when thou wert but a Babe. Oh then grieve not the Spirit, nor give God an occasion to put thee under a state of desertion.
3. Grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption, Ephes. 4.30. If you be not kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, ye do not only forget God and Christ, for whose sake God forgave you, but you grieve the Spirit, who brought you this good news; for all these are connected, together with Vers. 30. and so is that also, Vers. 29. if you do not edifie one another, and in your communications minister Grace to them that hear you. If God should (as it were) call back the witness of his Spirit and leave thee to walk in darkness, in what a woe-state wouldst thou be; 'twill in some respects be far worse with thee than 'twas before, when thou wert but a Babe. Oh then grieve not the Spirit, nor give God an occasion to put thee under a state of desertion.
4. Honour your Father; 'tis the sin of some that they glorify not God as God, and it may be your sin not to glorify God as a Father and as your Father, Mal. 1.6. A Son honoureth his Father; not only as a man, or a man above him, but as his Father. The Father pitieth the Son that serves him, and the Son should honour & serve the Father that pities him. B (as Christ Jesus