A49244:227
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 5: V. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. March 23. 1651.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. By giving them ill example. Weak Christians are more apt to be led by example then by Precept:1 When Peter, who was a Pillar in the Church, and a strong Christian, for fear of Persecution for sook the Gentiles, and separated and withdrew himself, then others of the Jews, (which in all likelihood were weak Christians) dissembled also. Thus Paul argues to abstain from giving ill example, about the eating the Idolothyta; If any man see thee which hast knowledge, i.e. who art a strong Christian, sit at meas in the Idols Temple, shall not the conscience of him that is weak, he emboldened to eat those things that are offered to idols?
5. By giving them ill example. Weak Christians are more apt to be led by example then by Precept:1 When Peter, who was a Pillar in the Church, and a strong Christian, for fear of Persecution for sook the Gentiles, and separated and withdrew himselfe, then others of the Jewes, (which in all likelihood were weak Christians) dissembled also. Thus Paul argues to abstain from giving ill example, about the eating the Idolothyta; If any man see thee which hast knowledge, i.e. who art a strong Christian, sit at meas in the Idols Temple, shall not the conscience of him that is weak, he imboldened to eat those things that are offered to idols?
And therefore let Christians learn from, ⟨p. 66⟩God, to cherish the weak beginnings of grace in the people of God. Look not on me, saith the Church, because I am black, because the Sun hath looked upon me, i.e. look not on me with a lofty and disdainful look, and with a coy countenance; and then the Church adds, My mothers children were angry with me, that is, other Congregations and People did disesteem and disdain me for my infirmity.