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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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2. Measure not the strength of grace, by the strength of your affections to some of the ways of God. The love of a newly married Couple may be more found at first, afterwards it's more solid. Women who are the weaker vessels are usually more affectionate. Weak Christians are usually most affectionate. When the Cripple was cured, we read that upon his first cure he leaped for joy;1 it's likely he did not continue to do so: the newness of the change did much affect him, and so it doth young converts.
2. Measure not the strength of grace, by the strength of your affections to some of the wayes of God. The love of a newly married Couple may be more found at first, afterwards it's more solid. Women who are the weaker vessels are usually more affectionate. Weak Christians are usually most affectionate. When the Creeple was cured, we read that upon his first cure he leaped for joy;1 it's likely he did not continue to do so: the newnesse of the change did much affect him, and so it doth young converts.
3. Measure not the strength of grace, by the abundance of the means of grace which you enjoy. Alas, Laodicea had a glorious light shining amidst her; she was one of the seven Candlesticks. And because she had such means of grace, she mistook her self, saying,1 I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing. But said Christ, Thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
3. Measure not the strength of grace, by the abundance of the means of grace which you enjoy. Alas, Laodicea had a glorious light shining amidst her; she was one of the seven Candlesticks. And because she had such meanes of grace, she mistook her selfe, saying,