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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 15: XV. Sermon At Lawrence Jury, London. April 27. 1651. This was the last Sermon that ever…
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David sets us an excellent pattern, when he makes that humble acknowledgement: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel our Father, for ever and ever. Thin• (Oh Lord) is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, 1and the majesty, for all that is in heaven or in earth is earth is thine; thine is the Kingdom (Oh Lord) and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all: and in thine hand is power and might, and in thy hand is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee, Oh Lord our God all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine own name, cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own; which is an excellent pattern of humility after enlargement in duty. David and the people had offered both bountifully and willingly towards the house of God, the Lord had enlarged both their hearts and their hands. Now all they did for God, is here ascribed to Gods grace and bounty towards them. It is excellent humility to ascribe our enlargement of Gods service, to the enlargement of Gods grace towards us; the way to have grace increased, is humbly to acknowledge from whence we receive every grace.
David sets us an excellent pattern, when he makes that humble acknowledgement: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel our Father, for ever and ever. Thin• (Oh Lord) is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, 1and the majesty, for all that is in heaven or in earth is earth is thine; thine is the Kingdom (Oh Lord) and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all: and in thine hand is power and might, and in thy hand is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee, Oh Lord our God all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine own name, commeth of thine hand, and is all thine own; which is an excellent pattern of humility after inlargement in duty. David and the people had offered both bountifully and willingly towards the house of God, the Lord had enlarged both their hearts and their hands. Now all they did for God, is here ascribed to Gods grace and bounty towards them. It is excellent humility to ascribe our enlargement of Gods service, to the enlargement of Gods grace towards us; the way to have grace increased, is humbly to acknowledge from whence we receive every grace.