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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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1. Though God regards the least measures of grace,1 let not this make you regardless to grow in grace. In the first creation God said to the creatures, Increase and multiply, and by virtue of that word the earth brings forth to this day. Now it is so in the new and second Creation; the Lord expects that our grace should increase and multiply.
1. Though God regards the least measures of grace,1 let not this make you regardlesse to grow in grace. In the first creation God said to the creatures, Increase and multiply, and by vertue of that word the earth brings forth to this day. Now it is so in the new and second Creation; the Lord expects that our grace should increase and multiply.
- 12. Use of Caution.2. Vse of Caution.
2. Though you have but a little grace,1 yet do not despise it, or disparage it.—Oh, do not despise the day of small things in the soul. Do not tread upon the bunch of grapes, 2upon the new wine in the cluster, but say, there is a blessing in it. Do not despise a little grain of mustard-seed, it will grow to a tree; true grace is a spark of heaven, do not tread it out; despise not the least, and be not satisfied with the greatest measure of grace.
- 12. Caution.
- 2Zech. 4. 6.