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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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2. If you want those external advantages to further and promote the growth of gifts,1 as for example, A Christian that follows an ordinary trade, which carries a Water-tankard on his shoulder, he may attain more brokenness of heart, more humility and self-denial, more experience of the goodness of God toward his soul, and of the method of God, then he who perhaps is in some great, honourable, and eminent employment: But that Christian who hath this mean employment, and such poor education, shall not attain those gifts, that others have attained who have greater advantages. As it is with a Scholar that hath been divers years at the University, he hath those external advantages, as education and literature, that his gifts and parts may be much increased; when perhaps a poor man that follows the Plough, may attain to more grace, and more acquaintance with the ways of God. Now if such a man have not so many gifts as others, it is not his sin: God doth not require more then he gives.
2. If you want those externall advantages to further and promote the growth of gifts,1 as for example, A Christian that follows an ordinary trade, which carries a Water-tankard on his shoulder, he may attain more brokennesse of heart, more humility and self-denial, more experience of the goodness of God toward his soule, and of the method of God, then he who perhaps is in some great, honourable, and eminent imployment: But that Christian who hath this mean imployment, and such poore education, shall not attain those gifts, that others have attained who have greater advantages. As it is with a Scholler that hath been divers yeers at the University, he hath those external advantages, as education and literature, that his gifts and parts may be much increased; when perhaps a poore man that follows the Plough, may attain to more grace, and more acquaintance with the waies of God. Now if such a man have not so many gifts as others, it is not his sin: God doth not require more then he gives.
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