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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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That there are many that have but weak measures and small beginnings of grace,1 who have been a long time under the Profession of Religion, and under the means of grace; such were the Hebrews, who for the time that they ought to be teachers, yet had need that one should teach them again, 2which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat; and I may accommodate to this purpose that speech of Christ,3 Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first. There are many who went out early, and took as it were the first step in Profession of Religion; and yet others have over-gone them, who went out after them. Many who have but weak measures of grace, have been of long standing under the means of grace. And therefore Christians are not to judge the ⟨p. 33⟩strength of grace by their Profession, but by their Proficiency; It is not how many years you have been Professors, but what experience and judgment have you gotten under Ordinances.
That there are many that have but weak measures and small beginnings of grace,1 who have been a long time under the Profession of Religion, and under the means of grace; such were the Hebrews, who for the time that they ought to be teachers, yet had need that one should teach them again, 2which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat; and I may accommodate to this purpose that speech of Christ,3 Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first. There are many who went out early, and took as it were the first step in Profession of Religion; and yet others have over-gone them, who went out after them. Many who have but weak measures of grace, have been of long standing under the meanes of grace. And therefore Christians are not to judge the