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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. 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, ⟨p. 140⟩but do strengthen the hands of Satan.
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 fruitlesse complaints of the want of comfort, then in faithful indeavours 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, ⟨p. 140⟩but do strengthen the hands of Satan.
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A fourth general propounded in the solution of this Case, was this: What may be the comfortable considerations which may be gathered from the truth delivered, viz. That strong Christians may be but weak in comfort? Now the handling of this last, will be an application of the other three particulars, by way of consolation to those that may perhaps now have strong grace, but weak comfort.
A fourth general propounded in the solution of this Case, was this: What may be the comfortable considerations which may be gathered from the truth delivered, viz. That strong Christians may be but weak in comfort? Now the handling of this last, wil be an application of the other three particulars, by way of consolation to those that may perhaps now have strong grace, but weak comfort.