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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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5. Any one sin indulged by, or concealed in the conscience, is enough to mar all your comfort. Concealed guilt contracts horror. The Candle will never burn clear whilst there is a thief in it. Sin in the conscience is like Jonah in the ship, which causeth a tempest, that the conscience is like a ⟨p. 137⟩troubled sea whose waters cannot rest: or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there: or like the wind gathered in the caverns of the earth, makes earthquakes and terrible eruptions. It is just with God,1 that a mans own iniquities should correct him, and his back-sliding should reprove him. Concealed guilt, though it may not bring a child of God to hell, yet for a time it may bring hell into his conscience. So that by all these particulars we may see,2 that if our comforts be abated, we may thank our selves for it.
5. Any one sin indulged by, or concealed in the conscience, is enough to marre all your comfort. Concealed guilt contracts horrour. The Candle will never burn clear whilest there is a thief in it. Sin in the conscience is like Ionah in the ship, which causeth a tempest, that the conscience is like a ⟨p. 137⟩troubled sea whose waters cannot rest: or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there: or like the winde gathered in the caverns of the earth, makes earthquakes and terrible eruptions. It is just with God,1 that a mans own iniquities should correct him, and his back-sliding should reprove him. Concealed guilt, though it may not bring a childe of God to hell, yet for a time it may bring hell into his conscience. So that by all these particulars we may see,2 that if our comforts be abated, we may thank our selves for it.
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