A64833:518
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. 2. A Continuation.
THE Devils first Argument being invalidated, he takes up another of a far different aspect, and would now have Christ be as confident and presuming as before, he would have had him diffident and doubtful; and so deals he with the Young men. Saith he, Matth. 4.6. If thou be the Son of God east thy self down (from the Pinnacle) for it is written, He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. That this Promise did belong to Christ in a special manner, is undoubtedly true; and the Devil perceiving how precious the written Word of God was to Christ Jesus, he fills his mouth with Scripture and a Promise, but leaves out the condition of it to which the protection is annexed; and that which he would cunningly insinuate amounts to this, q. d. If thou be the Son wilt thou not trust thy Fathers power and promise? canst have better security than the power of a faithful God, and the Faith of a powerful God? hath he not appointed thee a Life-guard of Angels to bear thee in their Arms, and wilt be afraid?
THE Devils first Argument being invalidated, he takes up another of a far different aspect, and would now have Christ be as confident and presuming as before, he would have had him diffident and doubtful; and so deals he with the Young men. Saith he, Matth. 4.6. If thou be the Son of God east thy self down (from the Pinacle) for it is written, He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. That this Promise did belong to Christ in a special maner, is undoubtedly true; and the Devil perceiving how precious the written Word of God was to Christ Jesus, he fills his mouth with Scripture and a Promise, but leaves out the condition of it to which the protection is annexed; and that which he would cunningly insinuate amounts to this, q. d. If thou be the Son wilt thou not trust thy Fathers power and promise? canst have better security than the power of a faithful God, and the Faith of a powerful God? hath he not appointed thee a Life-guard of Angels to bear thee in their Arms, and wilt be afraid?