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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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3. Christ is called the Sun of Righteousness because as heat and light are communicated by the Sun to things here below,1 so there is a sweet influence of grace from Christ upon believers.2 As by virtue of the Suns influence the vegetable and sensible creatures live, move and grow; so also the life and growth of grace in the soul is from that divine influence which Jesus Christ doth shed upon believers.
3. Christ is called the Sun of Righteousnesse because as heat and light are communicated by the Sun to things here below,1 so there is a sweet influence of grace from Christ upon believers.2 As by vertue of the Sunnes influence the vegetable and sensible creatures live, move and grow; so also the life and growth of grace in the soul is from that divine influence which Jesus Christ doth shed upon believers.
- 1Mal. 4. 2.
- 2Nisi desuper.
4. Christ is compared to a fountain,1 even a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. So that as water doth stream forth in the river from the fountain, so grace flows down from Jesus Christ upon believers, who is a fountain, where all fullness of grace for ever dwells, and from whence all grace is drawn and derived; and this is the first proof.