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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
1. Others that made profession of Religion after you, in time wil goe 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.
- 1Mat. 19. 30. compared with Mat. 20. 12, 16.
2. If thou dost not grow strong in grace thou wilt be sure to decay,1 and to grow weaker: for not to go forward in grace, is to go backward. Grace may be lost in some degree, and to its exercise and comfort, though not to its being and therefore says the Apostle, If these things be in you and abound, 2they make you that ye shall neither be barren, nor unfruitful. Intimating, that you will be barren if you do not add grace to grace. Weak things, if they be not watched over, and strengthened, will be ready to die.
2. If thou dost not grow strong in grace thou wilt be sure to decay,