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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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8. This further consideration may also humble us, that in the highest and greatest exercise of grace there is much mixture of sin. We may observe, that even those good actions, for which many of the People of God are recorded in Scripture, are yet blemished with some notable defect Rehab's faith in entertaining the Spies, was blemished with this failing, in telling a lie concerning them. It was also good the Midwives did ⟨p. 168⟩when they refused to obey that bloody decree of the King of Egypt, 1and would not kill the male-children of the Hebrews, and yet they miscarried as some observe in their answer to the King, when they made their excuse. We are apt to mingle sin with the best action we do, and so apt to plough with an Ox and an Ass; and our corruptions are apt to discover themselves, even while we are upon the exercise our grace.
8. This further consideration may also humble us, that in the highest and greatest exercise of grace there is much mixture of sin. We may observe, that even those good actions, for which many of the People of God are recorded in Scripture, are yet blemish't with some notable defect R•hab's faith in entertaining the Spies, was blemish't with this failing, in telling a lie concerning them. It was also good the Midwives did ⟨p. 168⟩when they refused to obey that bloody decree of the King of Egypt, 1and would not kill the male-children of the Hebrews, and yet they miscarried as some observe in their answer to the King, when they made their excuse. Wee are apt to mingle sin with the best action we do, and so apt to plough with an Oxe and an Asse; and our corruptions are apt to discover themselves, even while we are upon the exercise our grace.