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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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Sermon I. At Lawrence J•y, London. March 9. 1650/1.
1. KINGS 14. part of the 13. verse. —Because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
This Chapter contains in it Ahijah's Prophecy, foretelling what dismal judgements should befall Jeroboam and his posterity, for his Idolatry in worship, and defection from the Government and house of David. For which sins God did destroy him and his posterity: and not only the bad,a but the good were punished for their fathers guilt. For so it is intimated in this verse, out of which the Text is taken. Here was a young man, Jeroboam's son that should die for the fathers fault; and yet here was a mitigation of the punishment, that he should not die after the same manner that the rest did, he shall go to his grave in peace, because in him there is found some good, &c. Behold the goodness of God! a little good in him, and yet the great God takes notice of the little good in him. God found as it were one pearl in a heap of pebbles, one good young man in Jeroboam's household, that had some good ⟨p. 2⟩in him towards the Lord God of Israel.