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Name: Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…
Author: Christopher Love

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.

Christopher Love 1618–1651London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652

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Sermon 1: At Lawrence J•y, London. March 9. 1650/1.

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Others think the goodness of this young Prince was in this, that he would not consent to his father in taking away the government from the house of David; but where the Scripture hath not a tongue to speak, we have not an ear to hear, and therefore we shall not undertake to determine what the Scripture hath not determined.

Others think the goodnesse of this young Prince was in this, that he would not consent to his father in taking away the government from the house of David; but where the Scripture hath not a tongue to speak, we have not an eare to hear, and therefore we shall not undertake to determine what the Scripture hath not determined.

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There are many collateral observations which I shall deduce from the several circumstances in the text, and but name some of them. From the consideration that this good Abijah died:

There are many collaterall observations which I shall deduce from the severall circumstances in the text, and but name some of them. From the consideration that this good Abijah died:

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Good men, and useful,¹ and hopeful instruments may be taken away by death, when wicked men may live long upon the earth.

Good men, and usefull,¹ and hopefull instruments may be taken away by death, when wicked men may live long upon the earth.

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