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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.
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2. Asaph, a holy man, yet thus complains, Will the Lord east off for ever, and will he be favourable no more? is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? hath God forgotten to be gracious?1 hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? These are the sad expostulations of a troubled spirit cast down under deep dejections, and in the dark, by reason of the suspension of divine favour.
2. Asaph, a holy man, yet thus complains, Will the Lord east off for ever, and will he be favourable no more? is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise faile for evermore? hath God forgotten to be gracious?1 hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? These are the sad expostulations of a troubled spirit cast down under deep dejections, and in the dark, by reason of the suspension of divine favour.
3. David, a man after Gods heart, whose gracious breathings though the whole book of Psalms, show that he was a man of an excellent spirit, and had much grace. Yet David ⟨p. 130⟩wanted the comfort of his grace, when his soul was cast down, and his spirit was disquieted within him. And so
3. David, a man after Gods heart, whose gracious breathings though the whole book of Psalms, shew that he was a man of an excellent spirit, and had much grace. Yet David ⟨p. 130⟩wanted the comfort of his grace, when his soul was cast down, and his spirit was disquieted within him. And so