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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 thou art but weak in thy self,1 yet thou hast much strength from without thee, or rather it is in thee, because of the Spirit of Christ that dwells in their hearts, that do believe the devil doth all he can to make a ⟨p. 52⟩little faith fail, 2—but Christ prays that it fail not. Great are the confederacies of the world, the flesh and the devil against thy little grace,3 but be of good comfort. 4Ye are of God little children (saith St. John) and have overcome them, 5because greater is he that is in you, then be that is in the world: and the weaker thou art,6 the more advantage hath God to magnify the glory of his power in thy weakness.7
Though thou art but weak in thy self,1 yet thou hast much strength from without thee, or rather it is in thee, because of the Spirit of Christ that dwels in their hearts, that do believe the devil doth all he can to make a ⟨p. 52⟩little faith faile, 2—but Christ prays that it fail not. Great are the confederacies of the world, the flesh and the devil against thy little grace,3 but be of good comfort. 4