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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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4. You may know true desires after grace by their Object. Desires they are not gracious, if they be more after outward things then after God.1 So David, My soul thirsteth after God, after the living God. 2My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth after thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. Thus his soul longed, and did break with longing after Gods judgements.—Now therefore wouldest thou know whether thou hast any beginning of grace in thy soul,3 examine what thy desires are; perhaps thou canst not pray, but thou desirest to pray: perhaps thou canst not mourn for sin, but dost thou mourn that thou canst not mourn? Perhaps thou dost not believe, (as thou fearest) but dost thou desire to believe? Perhaps thou canst not repent, but dost thou desire to repent, and dost thou labour to repent? Then thou mayest conclude that thou hast some beginnings of true grace in thy soul.
4. You may know true desires after grace by their Object. Desires they are not gracious, if they be more after outward things then after God.1 So David, My soul thirsteth after God, after the living God. 2My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth after thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. Thus his soul longed, and did break with longing after Gods judgements.—Now therefore wouldest thou know whether thou hast any begining of grace in thy soul,3 examine what thy desires are; perhaps thou canst not pray, but thou desirest to pray: perhaps thou canst not mourn for sin, but dost thou mourn that thou canst not mourn? Perhaps thou dost not believe, (as thou fearest) but dost thou desire to believe? Perhaps thou canst not repent, but dost thou desire to repent, and dost thou labour to repent? Then thou mayest conclude that thou hast some beginnings of true grace in thy soul.
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