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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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4. When gifts are increased merely by virtue of continual study and industry,1 when gifts proceed merely from strength of natural parts, advantaged by education, study and diligence; if gifts do merely proceed from that fountain, there may be much gifts, but little grace. The greatest scholars are not always the best men, the reason is, because their gifts are gotten by industry and diligence; their gifts may be high, when their graces are low.
4. When gifts are encreased meerly by vertue of continuall study and industry,1 when gifts proceed meerly from strength of natural parts, advantaged by education, study and diligence; if gifts do meerly proceed from that fountain, there may be much gifts, but little grace. The greatest schollers are not alwaies the best men, the reason is, because their gifts are gotten by industry and diligence; their gifts may be high, when their graces are low.
- 1Case 4.
The fifth Position,1 there are cases wherein men may decay and be weak in gifts, and yet may be said to have strength of grace.
- 1Posit. 5.
1. If it proceed merely from a natural,1