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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. Let the strong labour to be more strong, that so they may be strengthened with all might, 1according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. And therefore it is that the Apostle prays for the Romans, that they may be filled by the God of h•pe, 2with all joy and peace in believing, that they might abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost; and yet in the next verse he told them, I my self am persuaded of you (my Brethren) that ye are full of goodness, and that ye are filled with all knowledge. And as he prays for the Romans, upon the same terms he presseth the Thessalonians, of whom he thus speaks.3 Now as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you, for ye your selves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed you do it towards all the Brethren which are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, Brethren, that ye increase more and more. The righteous (saith Job) shall hold on his way, 4and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
3. Let the strong labour to be more strong, that so they may be strengthened with all might, 1according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulnesse. And therefore it is that the Apostle prayes for the Romones, that they may be filled by the God of h•pe, 2with all joy and peace in believing, that they might abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost; and yet in the next verse he told them, I my self am perswaded of you (my Brethren) that ye are full of goodnesse, and that ye are filled with all knowledge. And as he prayes for the Romanes, upon the same termes he presseth the Thessaionians, of whom he thus speakes.3