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Name: Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…
Author: Christopher Love

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.

Christopher Love 1618–1651London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652

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Sermon 1: At Lawrence J•y, London. March 9. 1650/1.

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There were many good men in that time but to be good so soon as Abijah was, when he was a child, the Scripture records this to his praise.

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1. I shall show you that it is a commendable thing to see young men good men. This I prove,

1. I shall shew you that it is a commendable thing to see young men good men. This I prove,

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First, Because the Scripture makes very honourable mention of young men, when good men; as first of Obadiah, ^hthat he feared the Lord from his youth. And it is recorded to the honour ofⁱ Timothy that be knew the holy Scriptures from a child. Jerome conceives that John was the most^k beloved disciple, because he was the youngest of all^l God remembers the kindness of our youth. God takes more kindly the kindness of our youth then of our age. It was matter of joy unto John, that he found ^mchildren walking in the truth.

First, Because the Scripture makes very honourable mention of young men, when good men; as first of Obadiah, ^hthat he feared the Lord from his youth. And it is recorded to the honour of

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