A64833:94
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.
'Tis in this last Metaphorical and Moral sense that I am to speak of Babes, and by the way 'tis, perhaps, not unworthy of observation, that in the Metaphorical sense [Greek or Hebrew] is but once used (as I remember) and that by St. Peter, 1 Ephes. 2.2. but [Greek or Hebrew] is the word so frequently used by St. Paul; though by both they mean the same state of persons, as appears by the Milk which both mention when they speak of these Babes. Now that these metaphorical Babes (be they young or old for years) are a sort of professors inferior to, and of a lower rank than, the [Greek or Hebrew], little Children which St. John speaks to, I evince not only from the different words used, and that so frequently *(which is not inconsiderable) but from the characters and proper attainments of the one and the other state, which is the best proof, and indeed, such as is undeniable and cannot be gain-said.
'Tis in this last Metaphorical and Moral sense that I am to speak of Babes, and by the way 'tis, perhaps, not unworthy of observation, that in the Metaphorical sense 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is but once used (as I remember) and that by St. Peter, 1 Ephes. 2.2. but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is the word so frequently used by St. Paul; though by both they mean the same state of persons, as appears by the Milk which both mention when they speak of these Babes. Now that these metaphorical Babes (be they young or old for years) are a sort of professers inferiour to, and of a lower rank than, the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, little Children which St. John speaks to, I evince not only from the different words used, and that so frequently *(which is not inconsiderable) but from the characters and proper attainments of the one and the other state, which is the best proof, and indeed, such as is undeniable and cannot be gain-sayed.
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