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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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What Christ is said to work,1 that the holy Spirit also doth; because by the Spirit of God Christ worketh. It is a good rule, that the works of the blessed Trinity ad extra are undivided,2 all those works which are external, and relative to the creatures, as to create, preserve, redeem, sanctify, &c. are in respect of the things wrought equally common to all the Persons of the blessed Trinity. So that we may say,3 whatsoever things that the Father doth, those things do the Son likewise, and those things also doth the Holy Ghost; the work of Sanctification is equally ascribed unto all the Persons.4 God the Father sanctifies his people. God the Son doth sanctify his members,5 for he is their sanctifications. He loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it, with the washing of water through the Word. 6And yet the work of Sanctification is most frequently ascribed to the Holy Ghost; Goodness, Righteousness and Truth, 7and indeed all grace being called the fruit of the Spirit; and the Spirit is called the Spirit of grace and supplication, and the Spirit of holiness and sanctification. 8So our Regeneration is ascribed unto God the Father. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again to a lively hope. 9And so also we are the children of Christ by Regeneration, for in this respect Christ is called the Father of Eternity. 10Behold (saith the Prophet