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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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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
- 12. Answ.
- 21. Pet. 1. 1.
Because God is the Author of weak grace as well as of strong.—Solomon gives a good rule why the rich should not sleight the1 ⟨p. 60⟩poor.2 Because God is the Author and maker of them both. And God will not sleight the poor in spirit, no more then those that are rich in grace; for he is the maker of them both. It is an argument to us why we should not despise the poor, because God made him; and therefore surely much more because the Lord made the poor and weak Christian, he will not despise, &c.—
Because God is the Author of weak grace as well as of strong.—Solomon gives a good rule why the rich should not sleight the1 ⟨p. 60⟩