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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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1. When temptations may be said to be strong?1
- 1Quest. 1.
1. Then may temptations be said to be strong,1 when the solicitations of the devil to sin are urgent with the soul, when they are not weak and faint suggestions, but violent assaults, which will not be removed until assented to; when the devil haunts a man so that he will not let him alone, then may they be said to be strong. Thus it is said, Satan stood up against Israel,—i.e. He set himself to tempt David. And provoked him, 2i. e. He would not let him alone, but haunted him with hellish importunity,—till he had numbered the people.
1. Then may temptations be said to be strong,1 when the sollicitations of the devil to sin are urgent with the soule, when they are not weak and faint suggestions, but violent assaults, which wil not be removed until assented to; when the divel haunts a man so that he wil not let him alone, then may they be said to be strong. Thus it is said, Satan stood up against Israel,—i.e. He set himselfe to tempt David. And provoked him, 2i. e. He would not let him alone, but haunted him with hellish importunity,—till he had numbred the people.
- 1Answ. 1.
- 21 Chron. 21. 1.