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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. Though sin be strong,1 yet grace may be strong too in thy soul. If thou hast a strong measure of humiliation, though thy sin be great, if thy sorrow be great too, it evidenceth thy grace is so also. It was great grace in Manasseh, 2that he humbled himself greatly, though he had been a very great sinner.
- 1Answ. 3.
- 21 Chron. 23. 12.
3▪ If thou hast strong cries to God against thy sins, this argues grate, though it be ready to be deflowered by thy corruptions. If ⟨p. 112⟩when corruptions and temptations prevail, thou prayest to the Lord with strong cry• and tears, 1this argues grace, yea and the strength of grace.
3▪ If thou hast strong cryes to God against thy sins, this argues grate, though it be ready to be d•flowered by thy corruptions. If ⟨p. 112⟩when corruptions and temptations prevaile, thou prayest to the Lord with strong cry• and teares, 1