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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. It will open the mouth of wicked men to blaspheme God and Religion, as in the case of David, 1By this deed thou hast given great •ecasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. How were the mouths of Gods enemies opened to blaspheme his name?
1. It wil open the mouth of wicked men to blaspheme God and Religion, as in the case of David, 1By this deed thou hast given great •ecasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. How were the mouths of Gods enemies opened to blaspheme his name?
- 12 Sam. 1•. 14.
2. It will embolden the weak to sin with more freedom, when they shall see those which are eminent to fall: and thus the example of Peter made the Gentiles to Judaize.1 When the strong shall abuse his liberty, he becomes a stumbling block to those which are weak.2 When Phigellus and Hermogenes turned away from the faith how did all Asia turn aside also?3 Men of eminent gifts, when they shall apostatize, how do they draw others in abundance?
2. It wil imbolden the weak to sin with more freedom, when they shall see those which are eminent to fall: and thus the example of Peter made the Gentiles to Judaize.