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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 14: XIII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 20. 1651.
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2 TIM. 2. 1. —My son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Having in the last foregoing Sermons, treated of grace in its strength and growth, I am come to speak to this additional clause in the text, viz, That is in Christ Jesus: which passage is here inserted by the Apostle, that he might let Timothy know to whom he was beholding, for all the grace he had received, even unto Jesus Christ. In the tenth verse he speaks of salvation that is in ⟨p. 172⟩Christ Jesus; and here of grace that is in Christ Jesus: so note,
HAving in the last foregoing Sermons, treated of grace in its strength and growth, I am come to speak to this additional clause in the text, viz, That is in Christ Jesus: which passage is here inserted by the Apostle, that he might let Timothy know to whom he was beholding, for all the grace he had received, even unto Jesus Christ. In the tenth verse he speaks of salvation that is in ⟨p. 172⟩Christ Jesus; and here of grace that is in Christ Jesus: so note,
1. That Jesus Christ is the fountain and foundation, both of grace and glory. Jesus Christ gives grace, and Jesus Christ gives also salvation, with eternal glory, Ver. 10.
1. That Jesus Christ is the fountaine and foundation, both of grace and glory. Jesus Christ gives grace, and Jesus Christ gives also salvation, with eternall glory, Ver. 10.