Learning in Christ's School
Ralph Venning maps the Christian life onto four grades in a schoolhouse, tracing believers from newborn babes through little children and young men to spiritually mature fathers in the faith, each with its own weaknesses, strengths, and lessons. Drawing on the categories John uses in his first epistle, Venning shows that every stage belongs to God's family even as he presses every reader onward toward maturity in Christ.
Based on Christ's School, also published as Learning in Christ's School (1675)
From the book
In Ralph Venning's own words
“The fathers, the young men, the little children, and the babes have this in common, that they are of God's family and of the household of faith. They are all in Christ's school, though not in the same class.”
“God's Word and God's Spirit always agree and are of the same mind. The Spirit of God who gave the Holy Scripture cannot say one thing here and another in your heart.”
