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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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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, ⟨p. 27⟩though it be disputed that there are different degrees of glory. But in heaven the spirits of just men shall all be made perfect, 1and there we shall all come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. 2All believers here are justified by God alike. God doth not acquit the strong, and hold guilty the weak, but justification is alike to all, but our sanctification is not alike, but when we come to heaven, our sanctification shall be then as our Justification is now, that is, perfect and equal, we shall have not only a perfection of parts, but of degrees.