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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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The fourth Position is,1 That there are Cases, wherein men may have great gifts, but weak grace. God is pleased sometimes to carry mens gifts very high, when their graces have not a proportionable elevation, and the reason is, because gifts are for the good of others, for the edification of the Church of God,2 and not for the good of a mans self only; They were wanting in no gift, and had all knowledge; and yet when he mentions their graces, he saith, I could not speak to you as spiritual, but carnal; They outstrip other Churches in gifts, yet they came short of other Churches in grace. Such was the Church of ⟨p. 146⟩Laodicea, she was rich in gifts,3 and poor in grace. Now there are four Cases wherein men may have strong gifts, and yet but little grace.
The fourth Position is,1 That there are Cases, wherein men may have great gifts, but weak grace. God is pleased sometimes to carry mens gifts very high, when their graces have not a proportionable elevation, and the reason is, because gifts are for the good of others, for the edification of the Church of God,2 and not for the good of a mans self only; They were wanting in no gift, and had all knowledge; and yet when he mentions their graces, he saith, I could not speak to you as spirituall, but carnal; They outstrip other Churches in gifts, yet they came short of other Churches in grace. Such was the Church of ⟨p. 146⟩Laodicea, she was rich in gifts,3 and poor in grace. Now there are foure Cases wherin men may have strong gifts, and yet but little grace.
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