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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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1. That Jesus Christ is the Author and Giver of grace; he only is the Author and ⟨p. 173⟩Finisher of faith, and every grace in his people.
1. That Jesus Christ is the Author and Giver of grace; he onely is the Author and ⟨p. 173⟩Finisher of faith, and every grace in his people.
2. That Christ is the purchase of grace, so that all the grace that is bestowed upon us by God, it is through Christ, and for his sake; Grace is from Christ as a fountain, and by Christ as a Conduit.
3. That Christ is the preserver of grace, all the grace that is in us is in Christ Jesus, he keeps all our graces for us: As the beams of the Sun may be said to be the Sun, because they are preserved by their union with the Sun. Our life is bid with Christ in God, 1hid as the life of a tree is hid in the root, and the being of a stream is hid in the fountain. And herein is the comfort of believers, that their condition is more stable and immutable and safe, then ever Adam was in innocency, for he had all perfections of a creature, but they were in their own keeping; but now all the grace that is in a believer is in Christ Jesus, by whom and in whom grace is safely preserved, so as it shall never perish.