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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. Gods people have appealed unto God, concerning the uprightness of their hearts, merely by their desires;—so saith the Church.1 The desire of our soul is to thy name, and the remembrance of thee; and with my ⟨p. 43⟩soul have I desired thee in the night.
1. Gods people have appealed unto God, concerning the uprightnesse of their hearts, meerly by their desires;—so saith the Church.1 The d•sire of our soul is to thy name, and the remembrance of thee; and with my ⟨p. 43⟩soul have I desired thee in the night.
2. God hath made many gracious promises, not only to the acting and exercising of grace, but to the desires after grace. Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after Righteousness: 1for they shall be filled.—If any man thirst (saith Christ) let him come unto me and drink; 2nay there is a general and universal invitation to every one that thirsteth, to come to the waters; and God hath promised to give to him that is at hirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 3The Lord hath promised to fulfil the desire of those that fear him,