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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 5: V. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. March 23. 1651.
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Because the least measure of grace is of a very great value;1 the least grace and least measure or degree of it, is the purchase of Christs blood, and the merit of his great sufferings. The smallest spark of a diamond is precious; pearls and precious stones are but little for quantity, but great for quality and esteem. The least degree of grace is the Work of God, and God will not forsake his own Work.—
Because the least measure of grace is of a very great value;1 the least grace and least measure or degree of it, is the purchase of Christs blood, and the merit of his great sufferings. The smallest spark of a diamond is precious; pearles and precious stones are but little for quantity, but great for quality and esteem. The least degree of grace is the Work of God, and God will not forsake his own Work.—
- 1Answ. 1.
Little grace is of the same manner and excellency1 with the greatest degree of grace▪ for as the very filings of gold are of the same nature with gold, so the least measure o• of grace is grace.—The faith of all believers is the same faith specifically, though not the same gradually, their faith is in all alike precious, but not alike strong.2
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- 21. Pet. 1. 1.