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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 6: VI. Sermon At Lawrence Ju•y, London. March 30. 1651.
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Having lately handled the Doctrine of the small beginnings, and the least measures of true grace, and shown you how God will accept and reward them, by opening to you that passage in 1 Kings 14. 13. —Concerning Jeroboam's son, in whom there was found some good.—And lest that doctrine should accidentally (through the corruption of our deceitful hearts) beget in us spiritual sloth, and satisfaction in weak degrees of grace; therefore I shall prosecute my discourse concerning the degrees of grace, and show you, that though God regards weak grace, yet we must all labour to obey this Apostolical injunction, to be strong in the grace of God which is in Christ Jesus.
HAving lately handled the Doctrine of the small beginnings, and the least measures of true grace, and shewn you how God will accept and reward them, by opening to you that passage in 1 Kings 14. 13. —Concerning Jeroboam's sonne, in whom there was found some good.—And lest that doctrine should accidentally (through the corruption of our deceitfull hearts) beget in us spiritual sloth, and satisfaction in weak degrees of grace; therefore I shall prosecute my discourse concerning the degrees of grace, and shew you, that though God regards weak grace, yet we must all labour to obey this Apostolical injunction, to be strong in the grace of God which is in Christ Jesus.
In the whole verse you have three parts.
1. A loving Compellation, My son.