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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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The Lord will perfect his work that concerneth his People, 1i.e. He will perfect and encourage the least beginnings of grace, because Grace is his work in his servants. It is a very good argument in Prayer, O Lord, for sake not the work of thy hands. And though in respect of outward things God may destroy him whom his hands have made and fashioned, 2but it is otherwise in respect of grace. God will not destroy any measure of grace which is the work of his hands. Property is the ground of love, care and tenderness: as a man will look to a weak child, because it is his child, and will repair a weak house, because it is the house wherein he dwells. And that is the third demonstration of Gods tender care over his people, that the meanest measure of grace shall not be deserted or forsaken, because God is the Author of it.
The Lord will perfect his work that concerneth his People, 1i.e. He will perfect and encourage the least beginnings of grace, because Grace is his work in his servants. It is a very good argument in Prayer, O Lord, for sake not the work of thy hands. And though in respect of outward things God may destroy him whom his hands have made and fashioned, 2but it is otherwise in respect of grace. God will not destroy any measure of grace which is the work of his hands. Property is the ground of love, care and tendernesse: as a man will look to a weak childe, because it is his childe, and will repair a weak house, because it is the house wherein he dwells. And that is the third demonstration of Gods tender care over his people, that the meanest measure of grace shall not be deserted or forsaken, because God is the Author of it.