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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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2. It is of the nature of grace to grow and increase;1 and therefore if thou hadst grace, either in truth of it, or in strength of it, it will certainly grow. Grace in Scripture is compared to a grain of mustard-seed, the least of seeds, which afterwards sprouts and springs so,2 a• that it becomes the largest of plants. In the same chapter grace is compared unto leaven, which being put into the heap of meal, leaveneth the whole: so grace (as I touched before) in the heart, is of a spreading nature, and will diffuse it self into all the parts, powers, and faculties of soul and body. Christians are therefore compared to the branches of a Vine,3 which of all trees grows most, and brings forth most fruit. A ⟨p. 170⟩Picture doth not grow, but a living child will grow.
2. It is of the nature of grace to grow and increase;1 and therefore if thou hadst grace, either in truth of it, or in strength of it, it wil certainly grow. Grace in Scripture is compared to a grain of mustard-seed, the least of seeds, which afterwards sprouts and springs so,2 a• that it becomes the largest of plants. In the same chapter grace is compared unto leaven, which being put into the heap of meale, leaveneth the whole: so grace (as I touched before) in the heart, is of a spreading nature, and wil diffuse it selfe into all the parts, powers, and faculties of soule and body. Christians are therefore compared to the branches of a Vine,3 which of all trees grows most, and brings forth most fruit. A ⟨p. 170⟩Picture doth not grow, but a living child wil grow.