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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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3. This discomfort usually springs from a root of bitterness, even in the best of Gods children, and that whereby God doth punish the sins of his people.
3. This discomfort usually springs from a root of bitternesse, even in the best of Gods children, and that whereby God doth punish the sins of his people.
1. Their quenching the motions of the Spirit. 1If you grieve the Spirit of God, it is just with God to grieve your spirits: you never send Gods Spirit sad to heaven, but God may make sad your spirits on earth.
- 1Res delicata est, spiritus Dei ità nos tractat, sicut tractatur,
2. Sleightinesse and fearlessness of heart towards God. When children grow saucy, peremptory and malapert before their parents, 'tis no wonder if a fathers frown correct not their irreverence. Most of those who lie uncomfortably under sense of displeasure of God, may thank themselves for it, they have provoked God by their bearing them selves too much upon his love, and growing secure and fearless to offend God. God loves to have his children come near him in an holy confidence that he is their father, but yet to keep their distance by humble reverence.
2. Sleightinesse and fearlessenesse of heart towards God. When children grow saucy, peremptory and malapert before their parents, 'tis no wonder if a fathers frown correct not their irreverence. Most of those who lie uncomfortably under sense of displeasure of God, may thank themselves for it, they have provoked God by their bearing them selves too much upon his love, and growing secure and fearlesse to offend God. God loves to have his children come near him in an holy confidence that he is their father, but yet to keep their distance by humble reverence.