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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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3. We have many strong corruptions in our hearts,1 which weak grace will never be able to mortify; strong passions, strong lusts, and how shall weak grace be able to grapple with, and have a conquest over these? If thy graces are weak when thy corruptions are strong, thou wilt be miserably foiled by thy corruptions; therefore pray for strengthening and assisting grace, whereby thou mayst be able not only to resist, but to subdue and mortify the strongest lusts and passions in thy heart.
3. We have many strong corruptions in our hearts,1 which weak grace wil never be able to mortifie; strong passions, strong lusts, and how shall weak grace be able to grapple with, and have a conquest over these? If thy graces are weak when thy corruptions are strong, thou wilt be miserably foiled by thy corruptions; therefore pray for strengthning and assisting grace, whereby thou mayst be able not only to resist, but to subdue and mortifie the strongest lusts and passions in thy heart.
- 13. Reason.
Another ground of the doctrine is taken from the danger, if you grow not strong in grace• As
1. Others that made profession of Religion after you, in time will go before you in measures and degrees of grace: so it is said,1 That many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first. Those who were first in the profession of the Gospel shall be last in the degrees and measures of grace, because they have not improved grace to a further increase of it.