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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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4. The time of your youth is the freest age of your life to betake your selves to the exercise of religion and duties of godliness. Young men that are servants, have more freedom and less cares then when they grow in years, and theq cares & incumbrances of a family fill their hands and clog their hearts.
4. The time of your youth is the freest age of your life to betake your selves to the exercise of religion and duties of godlinesse. Young men that are servants, have more freedome and lesse cares then when they grow in yeers, and theq cares & incumbrances of a family fill their hands and clog their hearts.
5. Consider, if thou art not gracious in youth, the fins of thy youth may trouble thy conscience in thy old age. Many young men who are active and venturous in the heat of their youth, get those bodily bruises and blows, that they feel the ache thereof to their dying day. Thou that givest a blow or ⟨p. 9⟩a bruise to thy conscience in thy youth, mayest feel this in thy old age.
Those sins which now thou feelest not, may be a trouble to thy conscience, and an aching to thy heart, when thou lyest on thy death bed. And though God do not remember the sins of your youth to damn your souls; yet he may make you remember them so as to be a trouble to your consciences.