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Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of…
Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funerall sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.
London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652
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3. To have a scrupulous conscience about1 matters of indifferency argues a weak Christian;2 for so the Apostle calls them, weak in the faith, 3such as did bind the conscience when the Scriptures left it free. One believer thought he might eat any thing, and another doubted of the lawfulness of eating sundry things. Now those that doubted, the Apostle calls* Weak; and the weak conscience is apt to be defiled. Not to know our liberty, & to abuse our liberty,5 is an argument we have but little grace. Young Converts make more sinners then ever God made, they perplex and entangle themselves merely in indifferent things. It is true, there ought to be a conscientious tenderness in all Christians: tenderness of conscience is our duty, but a tormenting, entangling scrupulosity is our infirmity: and yet as a weak Christian is better then no Christian, a weak faith is better then a dead faith; so a scrupulous conscience is better then a seared conscience.
3. To have a scrupulous conscience about1 matters of indifferency argues a weak Christian;2 for so the Apostle cals them, weak in the faith, 3such as did binde the conscience when the Scriptures left it free. One believer thought he might eat any thing, and another doubted of the lawfulnes of eating sundry things. Now those that doubted, the Apostle cals* Weak; and the weak conscience is apt to be defiled. Not to know our liberty, & to abuse our liberty,5