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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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But here may an objection be raised from ⟨p. 100⟩that of John, 1where it is said, He that is born of God sinneth not, 2and keepeth himself that the wicked One toucheth him not, & that they which are strong have overcome the wicked one. And if this be so, how can that be truth, that strong temptations from the devil, may be consistent with strong grace in the heart?
But here may an objection be raised from ⟨p. 100⟩that of John, 1where it is said, He that is born of God sinneth not, 2and keepeth himselfe that the wicked One toucheth him not, & that they which are strong have overcome the wicked one. And if this be so, how can that be truth, that strong temptations from the devil, may be confistent with strong grace in the heart?
When it is said,1 the wicked one toucheth him not, it is not to be taken absolutely, as if the devil did not tempt a man at all, therefore there must be a restriction of the clause, he touches him not, that is, with a deadly touch; and so Cajetan, This phrase excludes not the kinds of temptations, but that we are not burt or eternally destroyed by them But I conceive rather that these words have a peculiar reference to the 16 verse, where is mention made of a sin unto death; the devil shall not prevail, or touch a man so, as to commit that sin which is unto death. Though he may tempt, and will be continually assaulting a man, yet he shall never prevail against him, so as to draw him to the committing of that sin.