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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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To make some Application of this truth. We may from hence deduce these inferences following: If God doth cherish and will reward the smallest measures of grace;1
- 11. Inference.
Then it will follow, That God takes notice of the smallest sins to punish them. He that graciously eyes the very buddings of grace, will also justly eye the buddings of corruption in his own people.1 That he was ready to have slain Moses for his neglecting of circumcising his son; and thus the Lord made a breach upon Uzzah, 2when he put forth his hand and stayed the shaking of the Ark:3 You have I known (saith God of his people,) only of all the Families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Then it will follow, That God takes notice of the smallest sins to punish them. He that graciously eyes the very buddings of grace, will also justly eye the buddings of corruption in his own people.1 That he was ready to have slaine Moses for his neglecting of circumcising his son; and thus the Lord made a breach upon Vzzah, 2when he put forth his hand and stayed the shaking of the Ark:3 You have I known (saith God of his people,) only of all the Families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.