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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 10: X. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. April 13. 1651.
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1. When may a Christian be said to lose his first affections? 1Affections are fitly compared to the pulses of the soul, by which may judgement be given of the state and temper of the soul; and that we may know when these affections beat low and are decayed, we may make judgement hereof.
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1. When we have not such eager desires after duties.1 It is very remarkable, that at a Christians first conversion, he is so earnest and eager after holy duties, that he will hardly allow time for the duties of his particular calling; nay how have men at first tied themselves to hear so many Sermons, make so many Prayers, read so many Chapters, spend so many hours in holy Meditation by our selves, and good conference ⟨p. 118⟩with other Christians? But alas, afterward this fervour begins to cool and remit, and men pray less, and hear more seldom, and this is from the multitude of their worldly occasions. Usually men at their first conversion, (which as Divines have observed) ordinarily doth fall out between the eighteenth and twenty eighth year of their age (though God indeed be tied to no year) yet men at that age have usually less of the world, and so it comes to pass, that afterward when the cares and profits, and pleasures of the world steal away their affections, that they grow much more remiss then they were at the beginning.
1. When we have not such eager desires after duties.1 It is very remarkable, that at a Christians first conversion, he is so earnest and eager after holy duties, that he will hardly allow time for the duties of his particular calling; nay how have men at first tyed themselves to hear so many Sermons, make so many Prayers, read so many Chapters, spend so many houres in holy Meditation by our selves, and good conference