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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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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.
1. The godly are never without the ground of comfort,1 though they may be without the sense of comfort. Though they may be without present feeling, yet they do not want real cause of consolation. They have an undoubted right to comfort, though not a clear sight of comfort. A child may have right to an inheritance, though he be not able to demonstrate and prove his right. Perhaps a man cannot read his evidences for his land, and yet those evidences give him a right to his lands: So it is with a child of God, he hath comfort sown, though perhaps he cannot presently reap it. Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright of heart. As it was with Hagar in the wilderness of Beer-sheba, her water was spent in the bottle, and she cast her child away from her, because she could not endure to see him die; she lift up her voice and wept that she and her child should both miserably perish by thirst, and yet there was a Well of ⟨p. 141⟩water hard by her,2 but she saw it not: so it is with many a poor soul, who are athirst for comfort, and (as they think) ready to perish, and yet there is a Well of water of life and comfort fast by, but they want the eye of faith to see it. And this is a great comfort, that a child of God, though he may want comfort, yet he hath right unto comfort, in that he hath truth of grace in him.