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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 11: XI. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 13. 1651.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. For the first, I shall give you instances both in the Old and New Testament, that those that have been strong in grace have wanted comfort.
1. Job a man eminent for grace, a perfect ⟨p. 129⟩and upright man, and one that feared God and eschewed evil: and yet you have Job complaining, Wherefore hidest thou thy face, 1and holdest me for thine enemy? nay, God did not only hide his face, but handle him as his enemy; for he thus makes his moan,2 He tears me in his wrat•, that is to be referred to God, and not unto the devil, or to Jobs unmerciful enemies, or uncharitable friends. He teareth me, that is, God teareth me. Who in my apprehension (saith Job) hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth, and as an enemy, sharpneth his eyes upon me. And that these sad apprehensions were upon Job, that God was his enemy, see him further lamenting himself, He hath destroyed me on every side, 3and I am gone, and mine hope hath he removed as a tree, he bath also kindled his wrath against me, and counted me unto him as one of his enemies. Yea, destruction from God was a terror to him.4
1. Job a man eminent for grace, a perfect ⟨p. 129⟩and upright man, and one that feared God and eschewed evil: and yet you have Job complaining, Wherefore hidest thou thy face, 1and holdest me for thine enemy? nay, God did not onely hide his face, but handle him as his enemy; for he thus makes his moan,