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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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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.2 Let us not judge one another any more. The word [Greek or Hebrew] notes,3 they were wont to do so before. Spiritual pride is a root of bitterness, which bears these two bitter fruits. 1. An over-valuing of our selves. 2. An undervaluing of other mens persons and gifts.
3. To behave themselves with contempt and superciliousnesse 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 aptnesse in the strong to be faulty herein.2 Let us not judge one another any more. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 notes,3 they were wont to do so before. Spiritual pride is a root of bitternesse, which bears these two bitter fruits. 1. An over-valuing of our selves. 2. An undervaluing of other mens persons and gifts.
- 1Answ. 3.
- 2Rom. 14. 1, 2, 3.
- 3Vers. 13. [Greek or Hebrew].Vers. 13. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.