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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 how God doth by leisure and degrees, carry on in the hearts of his people the work of grace unto further perfection. Mushrooms and such like worthless things, like Jonah his gourd may spring up in one night; but things of most moment, are of longest growth before they come to perfection. The Elephant amongst the Beasts, and the Oak amongst the Trees, and Man amongst the rational creatures, are longest before they grow up to their full and perfect dimensions. And as it is in nature, so it is in grace; there is a progress from less to greater: all this work is by degrees. The godly are called Trees of Righteousness, 2and yet this is by degrees. There is first the budding forth of the earth, and then those things that are sown spring forth, &c. v. 11. And therefore let young Converts learn from hence not to be discouraged. Gods ⟨p. 67⟩works both of nature and grace are perfected by degrees.
Learn from hence,1 how God doth by leasure and degrees, carry on in the hearts of his people the work of grace unto further perfection. Mushromes and such like worthlesse things, like Jonas his gourd may spring up in one night; but things of most moment, are of longest growth before they come to perfection. The Elephant amongst the Beasts, and the Oake amongst the Trees, and Man amongst the rational creatures, are longest before they grow up to their full and perfect dimensions. And as it is in nature, so it is in grace; there is a progresse from lesse to greater: all this work is by degrees. The godly are called Trees of Righteousnesse, 2and yet this is by degrees. There is first the budding forth of the earth, and then those things that are sown spring forth, &c. v. 11. And therefore let young Converts learne from hence not to be discouraged. Gods ⟨p. 67⟩works both of nature and grace are perfected by degrees.