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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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Though these small measures of grace are saving,1 yet you must not content your selves with them. Take heed, lest what I have said, for the support of the weakness of some Christians, become not a pillow for the idleness of others; But let us strive to go on unto perfection. We must not sit down with any measure of grace.2 And to persuade you hereunto;
Though these small measures of grace are saving,1 yet you must not content your selves with them. Take heed, lest what I have said, for the support of the weaknesse of some Christians, become not a pillow for the idleness of others; But let us striue to go on unto perfection. We must not sit down with any measure of grace.2 And to perswade you hereunto;
- 11. Caution.
- 2Heb. 6. 1.
1. Consider, that things merely necessary and sufficient to maintain a natural life, will not content a man: what man is content, ⟨p. 47⟩though he hath clothes enough to hide his nakedness, and food enough to keep life and soul together?—But he desires not only clothes for nakedness, but ornament, & not only food for hunger and necessity, but delight. Now shall men be unbounden after their desires for outward things, and shall they sit down and say they have enough for heavenly things?