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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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1. Satan shall not, for though he be a strong man, and armed, and hath got possession, yet when Christ comes, he is [Greek or Hebrew], stronger then Satan.
1. Satan shall not, for though he be a strong man, and armed, and hath got possession, yet when Christ comes, he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, stronger then Satan.
2. Sin shall not be able to hinder Gods work of grace. Grace shall be too hard for the strongest opposition, that is made against it. It is true, a man may and doth resist the ⟨p. 194⟩grace of God, with a gainsaying and contradicting resistance, but not with an overcoming resistance.
3. Thirdly, look up to Jesus the bestower of grace, how proportionably he gives grace suitable, and answerable to thy temptations and need.1 God divides to every one his grace •nd gifts, severally as he will, and yet he gives grace that shall be enough. My grace is sufficient for thee, 2said God to Paul, sufficient to quell corruptions, sufficient to repel temptation, sufficient to make thee wait upon me, •ill I give thee deliverance.
3. Thirdly, look up to Jesus the bestower of grace, how proportionably he gives grace suitable, and answerable to thy temptations and need.