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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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1. The more grace we have on Earth, the more glory we shall have in Heaven. As God doth unequally dispense his gifts in this life,1 so accordingly he crowns. There are degrees of torments in hell, the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees, who devoured widows houses, and for a pretence made long prayers, are doomed by Christ himself to receive greater damnation, 2and that servant who knew his Lords will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. Now if there are different degrees of torments in hell, then surely there are different degrees of glory in Heaven, and those according to different degrees of grace here on earth.
1. The more grace we have on Earth, the more glory we shall have in Heaven. As God doth unequally dispense his gifts in this life,1 so accordingly he crowns. There are degrees of torments in hell, the hypocriticall Scribes and Pharisees, who devoured widows houses, and for a pretence made long prayers, are doomed by Christ himselfe to receive greater damnation, 2and that servant who knew his Lords will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his wil, shall be beaten with many stripes. Now if there are different degrees of torments in hell, then surely there are different degrees of glory in Heaven, and those according to different degrees of grace here on earth.
- 1Sicut Deus suae d•na in hac vita inaequaliter communicate, sic coronat. Bucha.Sicut Deus suae d•na in hac vita inaequaliter c•mmunicat, sic coronat. Bucha.
- 2Mat. 23. 14.