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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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Learn from hence,1 That the same mind should be in Christians of greater growth to the weak, as was in Christ Jesus; who though he be higher then the highest, yet he looks upon the poor and lowly without disdain, and so should we. The heaven is the throne, and the earth is the footstool of the Lord, and yet this great God will not despise the weakest Saint, but will look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, 2and trembleth at his word. He will look on the poor, weak, trembling soul, and shall we look off from such ⟨p. 64⟩with pride and disdain, and set such at our footstool? shall Christ give the Lamb i• his Scutchion, and wilt thou give the Lion shall he like a Lamb be meek and gentle, and thou like the Lion be stout, haughty and stately, that contemns all the beasts of the Forrest? Oh be not you supercilious and contemptuous towards weak Christians, who are injured and discouraged by strong Christians.
Learn from hence,1 That the same minde should be in Christians of greater growth to the weak, as was in Christ Jesus; who though he be higher then the highest, yet he looks upon the poor and lowly without disdain, and so should we. The heaven is the throne, and the earth is the footstoole of the Lord, and yet this great God will not despise the weakest Saint, but will look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, 2and trembleth at his word. He will look on the poor, weak, trembling soule, and shall we look off from such ⟨p. 64⟩with pride and disdain, and set such at our footstoole? shall Christ give the Lambe i• his Scutchion, and wilt thou give the Lion shall he like a Lambe be meek and gentle, and thou like the Lion be stout, haughty and stately, that contemns all the beasts of the Forrest? Oh be not you supercilious and contemptuous towards weak Christians, who are injured and discouraged by strong Christians.