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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. This truth may be demonstrated by the many types of Christ in the old Testament which did shadow out unto us this, that all grace is from Jesus Christ. I shall mention some.
1. Aaron the High Priest was to lay his bands on the People, and to bless them. 1And herein he was a type of Christ our great and heavenly High Priest, through whom we are blessed with all grace.2 God having blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places ⟨p. 176⟩3in Christ. Jesus Christ is sent by God to bless his people, and to turn every one of them from their iniquities. And therefore it is recorded by St. Luke that a little before the Ascension of our blessed Saviour,4 he laid his hands upon his disciples, and blessed them: and so he doth still bless all true believers with the spiritual blessing of grace.
1. Aaron the High Priest was to lay his bands on the People, and to blesse them. 1And herein he was a type of Christ our great and heavenly High Priest, through whom we are blessed with all grace.2 God having blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places ⟨p. 176⟩3in Christ. Jesus Christ is sent by God to blesse his people, and to turn every one of them from their iniquities. And therefore it is recorded by St. Luke that a little before the Ascension of our blessed Saviour,