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Name: Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…
Author: Christopher Love

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.

Christopher Love 1618–1651London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652

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Sermon 3: At Lawrence Jury, London. March 16. 1650/1.

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1. Use is of comfort to weak Christians,¹ to those young Abijahs, in whom there is found but some little good. Let such know to their comfort,

1. Vse is of comfort to weak Christians,¹ to those young Abijahs, in whom there is found but some little good. Let such know to their comfort,

11. Use.1. Vse.

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1. Though thy grace be but little in quantity, yet it is much in value. A pearl, though but little in substance, yet it is of great worth, so a little grace is of great value; The heart of a wicked man is nothing worth; you may have much knowledge, and seeming grace, but no true worth. A shop full of barrels will not make a man rich, unless those vessels be full of commodities: gifts as to heaven, are but the lumber of a Christian, it is grace that makes him rich towards God.

1. Though thy grace be but little in quantity, yet it is much in value. A pearle, though but litle in substance, yet it is of great worth, so a little grace is of great value; The heart of a wicked man is nothing worth; you may have much knowledge, and seeming grace, but no true worth. A shop full of barrels will not make a man rich, unlesse those vessels be full of commodities: gifts as to heaven, are but the lumber of a Christian, it is grace that makes him rich towards God.

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2. Though thy grace be little for the present, yet it will grow for the future to a greater measure.

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