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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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4. Attribute to God the glory of his own grace,1 and this is the way to enjoy the comfort of our grace. Say with the Church, Not unto us O Lord, 2not unto us, but unto thy name give the glory. It will be just with God to deny you the comfort of grace, if you deny him the glory of his grace. Want of comfort is Gods Physic, to cure our souls of spiritual pride: and humble thankfulness for the least grace, is the way to enjoy the comfort of all our graces.
4. Attribute to God the glory of his own grace,1 and this is the way to enjoy the comfort of our grace. Say with the Church, Not unto us O Lord, 2not unto us, but unto thy name give the glory. It will be just with God to deny you the comfort of grace, if you deny him the glory of his grace. Want of comfort is Gods Physick, to cure our souls of spiritual pride: and humble thankfulnesse for the least grace, is the way to enjoy the comfort of all our graces.
- 1Answ. 4.
- 2Ps. 115. 1.
5. Spend more time in cherishing thy comforts then in questioning of them.1 It is the fault of some Christians, to spend more time in fruitless complaints of the want of comfort, then in faithful endeavours after comfort in Gods way. There are those who are more inquisitive how they lost their comforts, then careful how to recover them; and so indeed they weaken their own hands,