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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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Before I proceed to speak any more about strength of grace;1 I shall make some application of what I have delivered about the marks and signs of strong grace, and the use I shall make, shall be to give you some cautions about these foregoing characters, and there is need of a twofold Caution.
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1. Take heed you do not imagine your selves strong in grace, when you are weak; this is a dangerous mistake.
2. Take heed of thinking and judging your selves weak in grace, when you are strong in grace; this is an uncomfortable mistake. There is a man (saith Solomon) that maketh himself rich, 1and bath nothing; and there is a man that maketh himself poor, and yet hath great riches. I would therefore caution you that you may neither live above nor beneath what you have, that you may not proudly fancy you have what you have not, nor discouragedly fear you want what you indeed have.