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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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Job saith,1 He did not despise the cause of his man servant or maid servant, and he gives a reason for it,2 vers. 15. Did not be that made me in the womb, make him, and did not be fashion us in the womb? which holds as a very firm argument why the rich should not despise the poor, and so why the rich in grace should not despise those that are poor in grace; for God made and fashioned them both. Now what is a reason unto us, God is also pleased to make a reason unto himself, That he will not forsake what he hath formed; for so the Prophet Isaiah, The Lord that created thee O Jacob,3 and be that formed thee O Israel, fear not; for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name; for then art mine. And again, Thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb: Fear not O Jacob my servant, and thou Jesurun whom I have chosen; yea though he be the worm Jacob, 4yet God that made him will not crush him, but cherish him. See a gracious promise made to those that have but little grace, upon this very ground, that God is the Author of that ⟨p. 61⟩little grace. Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong Nation; 5I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Job saith,1 He did not despise the cause of his man servant or maid servant, and he gives a reason for it,2 vers. 15. Did not be that made me in the womb, make him, and did not be fashion us in the womb? which holds as a very firm argument why the rich should not despise the poor, and so why the rich in grace should not despise those that are poore in grace; for God made and fashioned them both. Now what is a reason unto us, God is also pleased to make a reason unto himself, That he will not forsake what he hath formed; for so the Prophet Isaiah, The Lord that created thee O Jacob,