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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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1. To manifest his divine authority and absolute sovereignty over his people. As the natural light of the day, and darkness of the night are at Gods dispose; so also is this spiritual light of comfort, and the darkness of a deserted and dejected spirit. God gives divi•e and spiritual consolations out of the goodness of his will, and withdraws them, to show the absoluteness and sovereign liberty of his Will.
1. To manifest his divine authority and absolute soveraignty over his people. As the natural light of the day, and darknesse of the night are at Gods dispose; so also is this spiritual ligh of comfort, and the darknesse of a deserted and dejected spirit. God gives divi•e and spiritual consolations out of the goodnesse of his will, and withdraws them, to shew the absolutenesse and soveraign liberty of his Will.
2. To let his people know, that comfort is not essential to holiness, neither inseparably and necessarily belonging to grace. Though there cannot be ⟨p. 132⟩true peace, where there is no grace; yet there may be true grace, where there is no peace.
2. To let his people know, that comfort is not essential to holinesse, neither inseparably and necessarily belonging to grace. Though there cannot be ⟨p. 132⟩true peace, where there is no grace; yet there may be true grace, where there is no peace.
3. God in the dispensation both of grace and comfort, shows himself a free and gracious Agent; and all our graces which God works in us, are merely from Gods grace to us. He will give comfort when and to whom he pleaseth, but still as a reward of his own free grace, the comfort of a pardon. The comfortable knowledge of our pardon is as well from Gods free grace as the pardon it self; and therefore God suspends the comfort of grace to make us look up to him for it. When thou repentest, God gives a pardon, but therein he rewards his own work in thee. To give a pardon or sense of a pardon is an act of mere liberality in God.