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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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2 By instances, wherein Gods people have prayed for the strength of grace. 1I how my knees (says Paul) unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he would grant unto you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. And speaking of the Romans,2 Rom. 15. 13, 14. he says, I am persuaded you are full of goodness and knowledge; yet because the best and most learned know but in part, and see but darkly through a glass, 1 Cor. 13 12. he prays that God would fill them with all joy and peace in believing, that they might abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost.3 So he prays, that their love might abound more and more in knowledge,4 and in all judgement; and that they may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that they might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, and be fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God. Thus Gods people have prayed for a further increase in grace. Paul after his conversion increased more in strength, whereby he was enabled ⟨p. 75⟩to confound the opposing Jews at Damascus, Acts 9. 22.
2 By instances, wherein Gods people have prayed for the strength of grace. 1I how my knees (sayes Paul) unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he would grant unto you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthned with might by his Spirit in the inner man. And speaking of the Romans,2