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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. And then again, Jesus Christ is commissionated and designed by the Father, to give out grace to his people: for so Christ speaks of himself,1 I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. Now it is the will of God, that from Christ believers should receive both justifying and ⟨p. 180⟩sanctifying grace. Our sanctification is Gods Will, 2and Christ came to fulfil that will of God: for so speaks the Apostle, Sacrifice and offering, 3and burnt-offerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldest not, neither hast pleasure therein, then said I, Lo, I come to do thy will (Ob God;) by which Will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So that the Will of God the Father, and the Will of Jesus Christ are the same in the bestowing of grace. Jesus Christ received a commission from God the Father, to bestow grace upon his people; and will you see how that Commission runs, you shall find it in the Prophet Isaiah; 4The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the Captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. Christ had a Commission under his Fathers hand and Seal,5 For him hath the father sealed: Joseph received authority from Pharaoh, and it was no dishonour to Pharaoh that Joseph was commissionated to issue out all the stores of corn to the Egyptians in the time of that famine: no more is it any dishonour to the Father, that Jesus Christ doth bestow and convey grace upon believers.
3. And then again, Jesus Christ is commissionated and designed by the Father, to give out grace to his people: for so Christ speaks of himself,1 I came down from heaven, not to do mine own wil, but the wil of him that sent me. Now it is the will of God, that from Christ believers should receive both justifying and