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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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3. A third Reason may be taken from Gods indulgence to young Converts,1 who usually gives in comfort according to the necessity of his people. It is with God our heavenly Father as with natural Parents, they are most tender over their new-born children.2 That parable of the returning Prodigal is very full to this purpose; his father did not only receive him mercifully, but bountifully too, he gave him more then was for necessity; not only sho•s, but a ring; not only clothes, but the best robe; not only bread, but the fatted calf, and music at this Feast, and all this was for this newly converted and repenting son, though his father did not entertain him so every day. So our God, at our first conversion expresseth much of his bounty and indulgence to his children, though afterward we may have the same love of God, & the same love to God, though the expressions may not be the same now, as formerly in those days of Gods bounty.
3. A third Reason may be taken from Gods indulgence to young Converts,1 who usually gives in comfort according to the necessity of his people. It is with God our heavenly Father as with naturall Parents, they are most tender over their new-born children.2 That parable of the returning Prodigall is very full to this purpose; his father did not onely receive him mercifully, but bountifully too, he gave him more then was for necessity; not onely sho•s, but a ring; not only clothes, but the best robe; not only bread, but the fatted calfe, and musick at this Feast, and all this was for this newly converted and repenting son, though his father did not entertain him so every day. So our God, at our first conversion expresseth much of his bounty and indulgence to his children, though afterward we may have the same love of God, & the same love to God, though the expressions may not be the same now, as formerly in those daies of Gods bounty.
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