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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 9: IX. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 6. 1651.
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2. Such as are strong Christians are very subject to spiritual pride,1 and to be highly conceited of their own gifts, parts and graces. Spiritual pride is a secret spiritual corruption, ⟨p. 109⟩that is in the most spiritual and gracious heart; it is a bad fruit that grows on the best root: there is nothing better then grace, and there is nothing more abominable then sin, and there is no sin so bad as pride, and there are none so apt to fall into this sin of pride, as they that have much grace, and there is nothing weakens a strong Christian more then pride, and nothing argues weakness more then this boasting.
2. Such as are strong Christians are very subject to spiritual pride,1 and to be highly conceited of their own gifts, parts and graces. Spiritual pride is a secret spiritual corruption, ⟨p. 109⟩that is in the most spirituall and gracious heart; it is a bad fruit that growes on the best root: there is nothing better then grace, and there is nothing more abominable then sin, and there is no sin so bad as pride, and there are none so apt to fall into this sin of pride, as they that have much grace, and there is nothing weakens a strong Christian more then pride, and nothing argues weaknesse more then this boasting.
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3. To behave themselves with contempt and superciliousness towards weak Christians,1 is an ordinary fault of the strong. There is not any one thing in Scripture more often mentioned then this, that we should not despise or discourage the weak, which notes an aptness in the strong to be faulty herein.