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

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3. Desires which are true and gracious are unsatisfiable; thus David speaks of his desires: My soul (saith he) breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments at all times; yea he further describes the ardency and unsatisfiablenesse of his desires by the Harts panting after the water-brooks. ¹The Hart is naturally the most thirsty of all creatures,² but this thirst is much increased when the poor beast is chased with dogs: even so the true desires of the soul after grace,³ are earnest, ardent and vehement desires.⁴

3. Desires which are true and gratious are unsatisfiable; thus David speaks of his desires: My soul (saith he) breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments at all times; yea he further describ es the ardency and unsatisfiablenesse of his desires by the Harts panting after the water-brooks. ¹The Hart is naturally the most thirsty of all creatures,² but this thirst is much increased when the poor beast is chased with dogs: even so the true desires of the soul after grace,³ are earnest, ardent and vehement desires.⁴

1Bern.
2—Psal. 119. 20.
3Psal. 42. 1.
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