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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. God in afflicting his children aims at their good. Thus when the devil tempted David to number the people,1 and when he was sacrificing at the floor of Ornan the Jebusite,2 there did God tell him that the Temple should be built, this was the issue of his temptation. So when Job was so tempted and afflicted, the issue of all was for his good. Jobs graces had never been so illustrious, had not ⟨p. 98⟩the devils temptations been so furious. This is one end of Gods afflicting his people, that their graces may become more orient.
1. God in afflicting his children aimes at their good. Thus when the devil tempted David to number the people,1 and when he was sacrificing at the floore of Ornan the Jebusite,2 there did God tel him that the Temple should be built, this was the issue of his temptation. So when Job was so tempted and afflicted, the issue of all was for his good. Jobs graces had never been so illustrious, had not ⟨p. 98⟩the divels temptations been so furious. This is one end of Gods afflicting his people, that their graces may become more orient.