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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. Quest. 1Why doth God so order and ordain it, that among his own people all shall not be of an equal stature in Christ, but there are of them some in whom there shall be but the beginnings of grace found?
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Answ. 1It is true, it is not with Regeneration as it was in the Creation; it is not with the Trees of Righteousness, as it was with the Trees of Paradise, which were created all perfect at the first: but it is not so in the Work of Grace, we are not perfectly sanctified, nor at once, but we perfect holiness in the fear of God, and that by degrees; and God hath given to some of his people but small beginnings and measures of grace, and that for these Reasons.
Answ. 1It is true, it is not with Regeneration as it was in the Creation; it is not with the Trees of Righteousnesse, as it was with the Trees of Paradise, which were created all perfect at the first: but it is not so in the Work of Grace, we are not perfectly sanctified, nor at once, but we perfect holinesse in the fear of God, and that by degrees; and God hath given to some of his people but small beginnings and measures of grace, and that for these Reasons.
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1. To put a difference between our estate on earth, and our being in heaven. In heaven we shall all have an equal stature in grace,