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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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4 Labour to keep up the primitive vigour of your affections.
1. Remember you may lose that in a short time, which you may be a long time in recovering. A man may lose more strength in one weeks sickness, then many months will make reparation. A wound may be quickly made, but not so soon cured. Philosophers will tell us, that the way from the habit to the privation is far easier, then from the privation to the habit; it is far easier to make a seeing man blind, then to make a blind man see; so it is far easier to lose our holy affections, then it is to recover them.
1. Remember you may lose that in a short time, which you may be a long time in recovering. A man may lose more strength in one weeks sicknesse, then many months will make reparation. A wound may be quickly made, but not so soon cured. Philosophers wil tel us, that the way from the habit to the privation is far easier, then from the privation to the habit; it is far easier to make a seeing man blind, then to make a blind man see; so it is far easier to lose our holy affections, then it is to recover them.
2. Labour to keep up your holy affections: for the truth of grace is more discerned by our affections then our actions. Acts of grace may be easier dissembled then gracious affections. A Painter may paint the colour, but not the heat of the fire.