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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 13: XIII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 20. 1651.
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6. Look not so much on your sins, but look upon your grace also, though weak grace. Weak Christians look more on their sins then on their graces, yet God looks on their graces, and overlooks their sins and infirmities: saith the Holy Ghost,1 Ye have heard of the patience of Job. He might also have said, Ye have heard of the impatience of Job, but God reckons of his people, not by what is bad in them, but by what is good in them. Mention is made of Rehabs entertainment of the spies, but no mention is made that she told the lie when she did so, that which was well done was mentioned to her praise, and what was amiss is buried in silence, or at least is not recorded against her and charged upon her. He that drew the picture of Alexander with his scar on his face, drew him with his finger on his scar. God lays ⟨p. 161⟩the finger of mercy upon the scars of our sins. Oh it is good serving such a Master, who is ready to reward the good we do, and is ready to forgive and pass by what is amiss; and therefore thou that hast but a little grace, yet remember God will have his eye on that little grace. He will not quench the smoking flax, 2nor break the bruised reed.
6. Look not so much on your sins, but look upon your grace also, though weak grace. Weak Christians look more on their sins then on their graces, yet God looks on their graces, and overlooks their sins and infirmities: saith the Holy Ghost,1 Ye have heard of the patience of Job. He might also have said, Ye have heard of the impatiency of Job, but God reckons of his people, not by what is bad in them, but by what is good in them. Mention is made of R•habs entertainment of the spies, but no mention is made that she told the lie when she did so, that which was well done was mentioned to her praise, and what was amisse is buried in silence, or at least is not recorded against her and charged upon her. He that drew the picture of Alexander with his scarre on his face, drew him with his finger on his scarre. God layes ⟨p. 161⟩