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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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4. And after the promised son was born, God calls upon Abraham to offer him up, ⟨p. 83⟩and yet notwithstanding all this, he staggered not at the promise •of God through unbelief, 1but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and was fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
4. And after the promised sonne was born, God calls upon Abraham to offer him up, ⟨p. 83⟩and yet notwithstanding all this, he staggered not at the promise •of God through unbeliefe, 1but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and was fully perswaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to performe.
A strong believer can suffer as well as do for the sake of Christ.1 Greater strength of grace is required to suffer for the truth, then to profess the truth; and therefore our Saviour propounds this to the ambitious suitors, the sons of Zebedee; Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shall drink of? 2and to be baptized with the Baptism wherewith I am baptized withal? implying thus much, that they did not well understand their own strength, that there was more grace required to suffer for the name of Christ, then to believe on the name of Christ, and accordingly as is our strength of grace, so is our courage for the cause of Christ, less or more. Nicodemus when he had but little grace, he came to Jesus, but yet in the night,