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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. When their gifts do but tend to the promotion of division in the Church,1 and pride in their own hearts. This was discovered in the Church of Corinth, 2they came behind in no gift; but see what he saith in ⟨p. 147⟩Vers. 11. For it hath been declared unto me of you (my brethren) by them which are of the bouse of Chloe,3 that there are contentions among you. And then in vers. 12. Now this I say, 4that everyone of you saith, I am of Paul, I of Apollos, I of Cephas, and I of Christ, they were carnal as to grace, and walked as men, though they were high in gifts, and when gifts engender strife in the Church and pride in a mans own heart, and when they do elevate and puff up the heart with vain and high conceits; this is an argument they are but mere gifts. The Corinthians were in every thing enriched by God; in all utterance and in all knowledge, so that they came behind in no gift,5 they had abundance of knowledge,6 but knowledge puffeth up, charity edifieth.
3. When their gifts do but tend to the promotion of division in the Church,1 and pride in their own hearts. This was discovered in the Church of Corinth, 2they came behinde in no gift; but see what he saith in ⟨p. 147⟩Vers. 11. For it hath been declared unto me of you (my brethren) by them which are of the bouse of Cloe,3