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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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1. When mens notions are clear and strong,1 but mens experiences and affections but low and weak, to have more expression• then impressions; to be like the Moon, that though from the wane it grows big, and increases to the full; yet it increases only in light, and not in heat: So men when they merely increase in light of notions and speculations, and not in heat of affection towards God, and the practical part of Christianity; and it is to be feared, that much of the Religion of these times is of this stamp, it is more in notion then motion, more in talking then walking, more in parts then grace.
1. When mens notions are clear and strong,1 but mens experiences and affections but low and weak, to have more expression• then impressions; to be like the Moon, that though from the waine it grows big, and increases to the full; yet it increases only in light, and not in heat: So men when they meerly increase in light of notions and speculations, and not in heat of affection towards God, and the practical part of Christianity; and it is to be feared, that much of the Religion of these times is of this stamp, it is more in notion then motion, more in talking then walking, more in parts then grace.
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2. When thy gifts are not influential upon thy life.1 Look as it is in that disease of the Rickets, that children are liable to, they may grow big in the head, and yet decay in the lower parts: So there are some (as it hath been shown) who have the disease of the spiritual Rickets, they do grow big in the head, big in gifts, and yet decay in their vitals, decay in grace and the exercise of it.