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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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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,1 who against hope believed in hope; and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead.—There were several things might have staggered Abraham's faith, had it not been very strong.
He can believe the accomplishment of Promises and Scripture Prophesies, though Gods Providence seeme to make against them, and though there seem no outward probabilities for them. Thus it argued Abraham was strong in faith,1 who against hope believed in hope; and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead.—There were severall things might have staggered Abrahams faith, had it not been very strong.
- 1Rom. 4. 18, 19. 20. expounded.
1. There were fifteen years at least between the making of the promise of giving him a son, and the fulfilling of it.1
- 1Compare Gen. 15. 4. with Gen. 16. 16. & with Gen. 21. 5.