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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 Reason is taken from the restless rage and malice of Satan, who when he cannot do the greater, will do the less: and if he cannot damn thy soul, he will labour all he can to disquiet thy conscience. The devil aim• principally to make us walk sinfully, and if not so, then uncomfortably: if he cannot make us live without God and Christ, and grace in the world, then he endeavours to make us live beside the comfort of our grace. And hence it is, that many dear children to God, who have truth and strength of grace in them, yet hearkening too much to Satan, live beside the comfort of their grace.
3 Reason is taken from the restlesse rage and malice of Satan, who when he cannot do the greater, will do the lesse: and if he cannot damn thy soul, he will labour all he can to disquiet thy conscience. The devill aim• principally to make us walk sinfully, and if not so, then uncomfortably: if he cannot make us live without God and Christ, and grace in the world, then he indeavours to make us live beside the comfort of our grace. And hence it is, that many dear children to God, who have truth and strength of grace in them, yet heark'ning too much to Satan, live beside the comfort of their grace.
3. But what shall I do,1 that want the comfort of my grace, to procure it, that so I may have comfort answerable to grace?
- 1Quest. 3.
1. Live more in the exercise of grace;1