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conscience_n	assurance_n	heart_n	sprinkle_v	1,791	5	11.0777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64811	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 preach'd many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1675 (1675)	Wing V201; ESTC R22310	205,352	390

you when the promise is made to none but lovers of God so if you separate not from uncleanness how can you expect God will be a Father to you when 't is promised only to them that separate c. Take heed then of an idle and dead Faith 't is true Faith is a duty but not Faith alone Faith that 's idle and dead what ever promises are made to Faith shall be made good to Faith and what ever promises are made to Love to Humility to Patience shall be made good when these graces are acted Saith the Apostle Heb. 10.23 24. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with clean water Let us hold fast this profession of our Faith without wavering for he is faithful that hath promised by which we see that there can be no Plerophorie or full assurance of Faith without the other qualifications therewith mentioned viz. a true heart c. by which we can expect the performance of promises This I thought good to hint that none might think Faith enough in relation to the promises without obeying in that very particular to which the promise is made But to proceed 7. Would you attain to perfection be patient then Babes are apt to be impatient and peevish for which they have been already noted but impatiency hinders growth as ever therefore you would be perfect let patience have its perfect work then shall ye be persect intire and lack nothing viz. of perfection Jam. 1.4 Patience is a compleating and perfecting grace as God speaks to Abraham Gen. 17.1 Walk before me and be th●● perfect that is not only sincere as 't is in the Margent but patient wait yet a while longer till I give thee seed by Sarah perfect thy hitherto waiting by waiting to the end So the good-ground-hearers bringing forth fruit with patience is opposed to the Thorny-ground-hearers not bringing forth fruit to perfection Luke 18.14 15. so that patience doth not a little contribute to the bringing forth perfect fruit and to our growing up to a perfect stature For 1. It establisheth the heart makes it stedfast and immoveable which helps to abounding and growth as appears by the places where they are joyned together 1 Cor. 15.58 2 Pet. 3.17 18. While persons hang loose and are tossed to and fro as Babes are apt to be Eph. 4.14 they are not in a growing conditior but patience doth settle fix and establish the soul as the Apostle tells us Jam. 5.8 Be patient stablish your hearts i.e. stablish them by patience For as 't is hinted in a parallel place Luke 21.19 In patience we possess our souls when as an impatient man is wavering and unstable is uncertain inconstant and double-minded ever doubtful and in suspense and therefore receives little if any thing from the Lord Jam. 1.6 8. 2. Patience helps the soul to wait notwithstanding disappointments and sufferings disappointments c. are discouraging things they dishearten weaken and make us faint and so put us under an incapacity of thriving but patience steels and strengthens our hearts when hope deferred makes us sick patience gives supports and cordials inabling to wait till the hoped and long'd for desire be granted which is as a Tree of Life This may be seen in such places as these Rom. 8.23 25 Heb. 10.35.36 and 12.1 Both these waies to name no more doth patience help us onward 8. As ever you would grow and proceed to perfection watch over your hearts and lives and keep your accounts well observing how you gain or lose day by day narrowly view your daily experiences considering what 's attained and what 's lacking that you may forget what 's behind so as to rest in it and press forward to what is yet before as the Apostle did Phil. 3.13 They are not like to thrive that keep not their Books and Accounts well but let all go at fix and seven and run at random As ever you would grow keep your diurnal monthly and annual annotations for else how can you discern the difference between what you were are and ought to be 9. And lastly make Conscience of Prayer your own and others Praying Saints and Saints Prayed for are most like to prosper The great Apostle not only prayed himself but often beg'd the Prayers of others his inferiours also for himself much more should you who being but sickly Saints cannot pray as much and well as you ought for your selves and therefore should call in the help of Elders and the Church to pray for you Read over the Prayers which the Apostle made for Babes and make them for your selves I will instance only in one and with that conclude this whole Discourse 't is that in Heb. 13.20 21. Now the God of Peace who brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus the great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his Will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through J●sus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen 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 't is elsewhere for a name common to all the Saints for in that sense a Babe is a Child and a Father is but a Child but here it notes appeculiar 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 That in the School of Christ there are several and distinct Classes of Fathers Young-men little Children and Babes that these states are not to be measured by their age or years but by their attainments and experiences That there is something common to all these and something proper to each of these which cann●● at 〈◊〉 so eminently be said of all these or of my other sort of them only that what ever excellency there is in the lowest is in the highest gradually much more and what ever defect or carnality is in the lower is in his higher much less I say of all these things I have treated at large before and shall not make any further repetition of them here Before I come to the next rank viz. Little Children 't will be convenient to give an account of two or three things 1. That what is here written to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sons or Children which is the name in common to all these three following divisions of Saints