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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 is one that labours for unity in the Church,1 as well as for purity in the Church. He will labour for his power that Christs coat shall be without rent, as well as with out spot. This character I gather from that exhortation of the Apostle,2 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded, and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same thing. It is a note thou art weak, when thou makest a stir in the Church about thy opinions; weak children are most froward; when children are weak and sickly, nothing will please them: so it is with some weak ones in the Church, their humour is such; you know not how to please them; but a grown experienced Christian is sober and wise, and very earnest to preserve unity in the Church of Christ.
He is one that labours for unity in the Church,1 as wel as for purity in the Church. He will labour for his power that Christs coat shall be without rent, as well as with out spot. This character I gather from that exhortation of the Apostle,2 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded, and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Neverthelesse, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same thing. It is a note thou art weak, when thou makest a stirre in the Church about thy opinions; weak children are most froward; when children are weak and sickly, nothing will please them: so it is with some weak ones in the Church, their humour is such; you know not how to please them; but a grown experienced Christian is sober and wise, and very earnest to preserve unity in the Church of Christ.
- 1Answ. 9.
- 2Phil. 3. 15.