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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. He is compared to a root. He is called the root of Jesse,1 not only because he came of the stock of David, but that he gives grace to Jew and Gentile that do believe: for to him shall the Gentiles seek, as it follows in the next words. Now that the Prophet there speaks of Christ, is plain by the Apostles express application of that prophecy unto Christ,2 calling him the root of Jesse, in whom the Gentiles should trust. And Christ speaks of himself,3 I am the Vine. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the Vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me; the life, sap, nourishment, growth and fruitfulness of a branch is altogether from the root, with which the branches have union and communion.
1. He is compared to a root. He is called the root of Jesse,1 not only because he came of the stock of David, but that he gives grace to Jew and Gentile that do believe: for to him shall the Gentiles seek, as it followes in the next words. Now that the Prophet there speaks of Christ, is plain by the Apostles expresse application of that prophesie unto Christ,2 calling him the root of Jesse, in whom the Gentiles should trust. And Christ speaks of himselfe,3 I am the Vine. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the Vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me; the life, sap, nourishment, growth and fruitfulnesse of a branch is altogether from the root, with which the branches have union and communion.