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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. The little measure of grace once begun in the soul shall be perfected.1—God will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax until judgment be perfected in victory. By judgment is meant there, the work of Sanctification, till that comes to be prevalent over corruption. Paul was confident,2 That the that bad begun a good work in them, would finish it, unto the day of Jesus Christ. 3The Lord is faithful and will do it. God hath commanded us to go on to perfection, 4and he doth not command impossibilities. God blames men of folly, in not proceeding to finish when they have begun to build. 5God will never begin to rear up a structure of grace, and never finish it.—Besides, God hath promised to perfect that which concerns his servants.6
3. The little measure of grace once begun in the soul shall be perfected.1—God wil not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoaking flax until judgment be perfected in victory. By judgment is meant there, the work of Sanctification, till that comes to be prevalent over corruption. Paul was confident,2 That the that bad begun a good work in them, would finish it, unto the day of Jesus Christ. 3The Lord is faithful and will doe it. God hath commanded us to go on to perfection, 4and he doth not command impossibilities. God blames men of folly, in not proceeding to finish when they have begun to build. 5