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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 10: X. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. April 13. 1651.
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2. Affections may be judged to be decayed when men have not such ravishing joys as we were wont to have.1 How many have been at first in Davids frame of heart,2 I was glad when they said to me, come let us go into the house of the Lord? but afterwards the overflowing of this flood of joy by degrees hath abated.
2. Affections may be judged to be decayed when men have not such ravishing joyes as we were wont to have.1 How many have been at first in Davids frame of heart,2 I was glad when they said to me, come let us go into the house of the Lord? but afterwards the overeflowing of this flood of joy by dogrees hath abated.
- 1Answ. 2.
- 2Psal. 122, 1
3. When sensible profit by Ordinances is abated.1 A man may profit by Ordinances, and yet not be sensible of that his profiting. A Christian may grow at the root in solidity of grace, though it may be not shoot up so much in blossoms of affection.
3. When sensible profit by Ordinances is abated.1 A man may profit by Ordinances, and yet not be sensible of that his profiting. A Christian may grow at the root in solidity of grace, though it may be not shoot up so much in blossomes of affection.