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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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3. They that have much grace, yet should be humbled, for there are those that have more grace then you, and yet have had less time and fewer advantages then you have; there are those that have gone before you much for strength of grace, and yet have come behind you for means of grace: there are those who were the last and are first,1 and before you.
3. They that have much grace, yet should be humbled, for there are those that have more grace then you, and yet have had lesse time and fewer advantages then you have; there are those that have gone before you much for strength of grace, and yet have come behind you for means of grace: there are those who were the last and are first,1 and before you.
4 Be humbled under much grace; for ye have not so much grace as you should have had, concerning the means of grace you have lived under. How many years have you been in the school of Christ, and yet what little proportionable progress have you made in the knowledge of Jesus Christ? we may all blush to think what dunces we have been in the school of Christ. The trees of the garden should bear nore fruit then the trees of the forrest:1 the Fig-tree therefore which was unfruitful, was the more intolerable, because it was in the garden, in the vineyard. What the Apostle complains of the Hebrews, we our selves may justly take up the complaint against our selves,2 that For the time we ought to have been teachers, and yet have need that one teach us again what are the first Principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.