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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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3. Disclaim all merit and self-sufficiency, for so much as we arrogate to our own merit, so much as we derogate from the free grace and mercy of God. If with Ephraim God hath enlarged his grace towards thee, that thou art like a green fig-tree, 1yet let God have the glory of all thy fruitfulness, and let him say, from me is thy fruit found. Oh consider,2 that thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Say, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name do we give the praise. A gracious heart knows his own inability, and his own insufficiency and imperfection, that he is unable to overcome the least sin though never so small, to exercise any grace though never so weak, to perform the least duty, though ⟨p. 192⟩never so easy: and as we have cause to acknowledge our inability, so also our sinful imperfections; if God should enter into judgement with us, he might condemn us, not only for our worst sins, but for our best duties.
3. Disclaim all merit and self-sufficiency, for so much as we arrogate to our own merit, so much as we derogate from the free grace and mercy of God. If with Ephraim God hath enlarged his grace towards thee, that thou art like a green fig-tree, 1yet let God have the glory of all thy fruitfulnesse, and let him say, from me is thy fruit found. Oh consider,2 that thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Say, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name do we give the praise. A gracious heart knows his own inability, and his own insufficiency and imperfection, that he is unable to overcome the least sin though never so small, to exercise any grace though never so weak, to perform the least duty, though ⟨p. 192⟩never so easie: and as we have cause to acknowledge our inability, so also our sinfull imperfections; if God should enter into judgement with us, he might condemne us, not only for our worst sins, but for our best duties.