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The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in…
The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in some of the last sermons of Mr. Joseph Caryl ; with an epistle prefixed by John Owen ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock, senior and junior ..., 1673
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Fourthly, A clearer light to see the excellency of Jesus Christ himself. As of an Interest in Christ, so of the person of Christ, how glorious, ⟨p. 104⟩how choice a one Jesus Christ is. I do but touch this now: By affliction a light comes into the soul: Upon all these, or upon other accounts, we must needs improve Heaven-ward, and grow up like the Palm-tree. In 2 Pet. 3. 18. saith the Apostle, Grow in Grace. Why how should we come to grow in grace? Why saith he, And in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In proportion to our growth in the knowledge, in the true knowledge; I speak not of a notional knowledge, a mere brain knowledge, but of an experimental knowledge of Jesus Christ. As we increase in this knowledge, so we increase and grow in grace: and so of the rest. As we grow in the knowledge of the vanity of the world: as we grow in the knowledge of the Word of God; as we grow in the knowledge of the worth of grace, and of an interest in Christ; as we grow in the knowledge of the excellency of the knowledge of ⟨p. 105⟩the Person of Christ, so we must needs grow in grace. Now then, the Cross and affliction giving us an advantage for all these things, you see the ground of it. And then,
Fourthly, A clearer light to see the excellency of Jesus Christ himself. As of an Interest in Christ, so of the person of Christ, how glorious, ⟨p. 104⟩how choice a one Jesus Christ is. I do but touch this now: By affliction a light comes into the soul: Upon all these, or upon other accounts, we must needs improve Heaven-ward, and grow up like the Palm-tree. In 2 Pet. 3. 18. saith the Apostle, Grow in Grace. Why how should we come to grow in grace? Why saith he, And in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In proportion to our growth in the knowledge, in the true knowledge; I speak not of a notional knowledge, a meer brain knowledge, but of an experimental knowledge of Jesus Christ. As we increase in this knowledge, so we increase and grow in grace: and so of the rest. As we grow in the knowledge of the vanity of the world: as we grow in the knowledge of the Word of God; as we grow in the knowledge of the worth of grace, and of an interest in Christ; as we grow in the knowledge of the excellency of the knowledge of