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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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Hence we may gather,1 that it is our duty, the more bad the place or family is where God hath cast your dwelling, the better and more blameless you should labour to be; you will by this adorn your Profession, stop the mouths of adversaries, allure and win others to embrace Christianity.2—We must be blameless and harmless, the Sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, amongst whom ye shine as lights in the world. Stars shine brightest in a dark night, & fire burneth hottest in a cold and frosty day: so should thy star of profession shine brightest in darkest places, where thou livest, and the fire of thy zeal burn hottest in cold time, when the love of many waxes cold.
Hence we may gather,1 that it is our duty, the more bad the place or family is where God hath cast your dwelling, the better and more blameless you should labour to be; you will by this adorn your Profession, stop the mouths of adversaries, allure and win others to imbrace Christianity.2—We must be blameless and harmless, the Sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, amongst whom ye shine as lights in the world. Stars shine brightest in a dark night, & fire burneth hottest in a cold and frosty day: so should thy star of profession shine brightest in darkest places, where thou livest, and the fire of thy zeal burn hottest in cold time, when the love of many waxes cold.
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- 2Phil. 2. 15.