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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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5. To have mens persons in admiration argues weakness in grace;1 such were the Corinthians who had mens persons in admiration: the Apostle calls them, Children, Babes and poor, low, and carnal Christians: Babes, though they had the life of Christians; yet they had but little of the strength of Christians. —They were carnal, 2they savoured more of the flesh then of the Spirit. Ignorance is often a cause of admiration; weak Christians who have but little knowledge, are apt to be so taken with mens persons, that one cries, I am of Paul,3 and another, I am of Apollo, and so fall into the sin condemned of having the faith of Christ with respect of persons, to cry up one Minister, and to cry down others. To idolize some, & to despise others argues that thou art weak in faith. A solid Christian loves all good ministers, and can contemn none.
5. To have mens persons in admiration argues weaknesse in grace;1 such were the Corinthians who had mens persons in admiration: the Apostle calls them, Children, Babes and poor, low, and carnall Christians: Babes, though they had the life of Christians; yet they had but little of the strength of Christians. —They were carnal, 2they savoure'd more of the flesh then of the Spirit. Ignorance is often a cause of admiration; weak Christians who have but little knowledge, are apt to be so taken with mens persons, that one cryes, I am of Paul,3 and another, I am of Apollo, and so fall into the sin condemned of having the faith of Christ with respect of persons, to cry up one Minister, and to cry down others. To idolize some, & to despise others argues that thou art weak in faith. A solid Christian loves all good ministers, and can contemne none.
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