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…

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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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.

11. Observation.

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Bad Jeroboam lived long, his good son died soon; so true is that of Solomon, A righteous man may perish in his righteousness, when a wicked man may prolong his days in his wickedness; Briers and Thorns and Thistles wither ⟨p. 5⟩not so soon as Lilies and Roses, they may be taken out of the world, of whom the world is not worthy, and they remain behind, who are not worthy to live in the world.

Bad Jeroboam lived long, his good sonne died soon; so true is that of Solomon, A righteous man may perish in his righteousnesse, when a wicked man may prolong his dayes in his wickednesse; Briers and Thorns and Thistles wither

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