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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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1. Small measures of grace are not so sensible and evidential to your selves, little things because they are little, are not seen. There may be a little dust hovering up and down in the air, yet because it is small we see it not: this i• the reason why Christians doubt; grace is little, and therefore it is not discerned.1 Compare Mat. 8. 28. with Mar. 4. 40. and we shall find, that in Matthew, Christ saith, in his reproof to his disciples, O ye of little faith. And in Mark, How is it that ye have no faith? You may from the variety of these expressions gather this, that a little faith unexercised, as to comfort, is as good as no faith: it was so little, it was as good as none in that particular exigence they were in; you may have a little grace, and yet as to comfort, that little and weak grace may not further thee in a way of strong consolation. Not but that a weak Christian is accepted, that the weaker Christian may lie in his Fathers bosom;—yet it is the strength of grace that gives us strong consolation.
1. Small measures of grace are not so sensible and evidential to your selves, little things because they are little, are not seen. There may be a little dust hovering up and down in the aire, yet because it is small we see it not: this i• the reason why Christians doubt; grace is little, and therefore it is not discern'd.1 Compare Mat. 8. 28. with Mar. 4. 40. and we shal finde, that in Matthew, Christ saith, in his reproof to his disciples, O ye of little faith. And in Mark, How is it that ye have no faith? You may from the variety of these expressions gather this, that a little faith unexercised, as to comfort, is as good as no faith: it was so little, it was as good as none in that particular exigence they were in; you may have a little grace, and yet as to comfort, that little and weak grace may not further thee in a way of strong consolation. Not but that a weak Christian is accepted, that the weaker Christian may lie in his Fathers bosome;—yet it is the strength of grace that gives us strong consolation.