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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 7: VII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. March 30. 1651.
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A grown, experienced and strong Christian, ⟨p. 82⟩is most conversant and employed in the most strict and severe exercises of Religion which tend most to mortification: weak Christians are all for easy and ordinary exercises, as hearing and reading good books; but a strong Christian is much in spiritual watchfulness, secret prayer, frequent fasting, self-denial, and heavenly meditation, and such like duties as have a special influence upon the mortification of sin and corruption. A child whose parts and strength is weak,1 is not conversant about such arduous and great undertakings as a grown man.
A grown, experienced and strong Christian, ⟨p. 82⟩is most conversant and imployed in the most strict and severe exercises of Religion which tend most to mortification: weak Christians are all for easie and ordinary exercises, as hearing and reading good books; but a strong Christian is much in spirituall watchfulnesse, secret prayer, frequent fasting, self-denyal, and heavenly meditation, and such like duties as have a special influence upon the mortification of sin and corruption. A childe whose parts and strength is weak,1 is not conversant about such arduous and great undertakings as a grown man.
- 1Luk. 5. 33, 34, 35, &c. 5. Answ.
He can believe the accomplishment of Promises and Scripture Prophesies, though Gods Providence seem to make against them, and though there seem no outward probabilities for them. Thus it argued Abraham was strong in faith,