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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 12: XII. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. April 20, 1651.
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3. And then give you some practical in reference, by way of Application.
3. And then give you some practicall in reference, by way of Application.
Isle begin with the first, namely the Positions, ⟨p. 143⟩and they are these four following:
Ile begin with the first, namely the Positions, ⟨p. 143⟩and they are these four following:
This first Position is this,1 That though all believers they have the same Spirit, yet God in his wisdom thinks it fit they shall not have the same gifts.2 There are (saith the Apostle) diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. As it is with flowers, there is not the same smell but different smells to different flowers, and yet all their scents have the same influence from above; and as it is with instruments of music, there are divers sounds in the Organ, but the same breath doth cause the several sounds: So in the Church of God, though there is the same influence of the Spirit of God, yet not the same measure of gifts in each member of the Church.
This first Position is this,1 That though all believers they have the same Spirit, yet God in his wisdom thinks it fit they shalnot have the same gifts.