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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 8: VIII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 6. 1651.
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2. Let the temptations of the devil be never so strong,1 yet they shall not be above the strength of grace, which believers have received from God.2 God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able. He will proportion the burden to the back, and the stroke to the strength of him who is to bear it; if temptations increase, our strength shall also increase, whereby we may be able to grapple with them.
2. Let the temptations of the devil be never so strong,1 yet they shall not be above the strength of grace, which believers have received from God.2 God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able. He will proportion the burden to the back, and the stroak to the strength of him who is to bear it; if temptations increase, our strength shall also increase, whereby we may be able to grapple with them.
- 1Posit. 2.
- 21 Cor. 10. 13.
3. It is evident,1 that the temptations of the devil are always ordinarily most strong, after Gods people have discharged some extraordinary duties to God, or have received most discoveries of grace from God. In both these Cases the devils temptations are usually great. You find that immediately after the Celebration of the Lords Supper the devil desired to winnow the disciples;