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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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7. Learn this for thy comfort, that though thou hast but a little grace, yet that little grace shall not be extinguished by thy strong corruption, but at last it shall over-master your corruptions. What was said of Esau and Jacob, 1the one shall be stronger then the other, and the elder shall serve the younger, and so it came afterwards to pass in the time of Jehoshaphat, when there was no King in Edom; 2That may be fitly applied to the affairs of the soul, the elder shall serve the younger; corruption in the soul is elder then grace in the soul, and corruption is so opposite to grace, that it labours for the extinction of grace, but this spark shall live in the midst of the sea of corruption, till at last that great deep shall be made dry; and the house of David shall at last quite put down the house of Saul, the Name of the Lord will perform this. And therefore thou that art but a weak Christian, learn to stay thy self on the Name of the Lord, till judgement be brought forth into victory.
7. Learn this for thy comfort, that though thou hast but a little grace, yet that little grace shall not be extinguished by thy strong corruption, but at last it shall over-master your corruptions. What was said of Esau and Jacob, 1the one shall be stronger then the other, and the elder shall serve the younger, and so it came afterwards to passe in the time of Jehosaphat, when there was no King in Edom; 2That may be fitly applyed to the affairs of the soul, the elder shal serve the younger; corruption in the soul is elder then grace in the soul, and corruption is so opposite to grace, that it labours for the extinction of grace, but this sparke shall live in the midst of the sea of corruption, till at last that great deep shall be made dry; and the house of David shall at last quite put down the house of Saul, the Name of the Lord will perform this. And therefore thou that art but a weak Christian, learn to stay thy self on the Name of the Lord, till judgement be brought forth into victory.
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