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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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Then certainly it is a vain plea for men to excuse their wickedness,1 because they live in bad places; this was Abraham's fault to excuse his lie by being at Gerar. Seneca blames men2 of laying the fault of their badness on the place where they live:3 I am not ambitious by nature, but no man that lives at Rome can be otherwise. I am not given to costly and rich Apparel, but I must do so when I am at Rome. It is the badness of thy heart, and not the place that makes thee bad; no place though never so good, can exempt a man from sin; the Angels sinned in Heaven, Adam in Paradise, Judas in Christs family, and no place though never so bad can excuse a man from sin.
Then certainly it is a vain plea for men to excuse their wickedness,1 because they live in bad places; this was Abrahams fault to excuse his lie by being at Gerar. Seneca blames men2 of laying the fault of their badness on the place where they live:3 I am not ambitious by nature, but no man that lives at Rome can be otherwise. I am not given to costly and rich Apparel, but I must do so when I am at Rome. It is the badnesse of thy heart, and not the place that makes thee bad; no place though never so good, can exempt a man from sin; the Angels sinned in Heaven, Adam in Paradise, Judas in Christs family, and no place though never so bad can excuse a man from sin.
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- 2Gen. 20. 11
- 3Non ego s•m ambitiosus, sed nemo Romae aliter vivere potest: non ego sum sumptuosus, sed urbs ipsa magnas impensas exigit. Sen.