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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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I might produce a cloud of testimonies to confirm this point. Our Saviour Christ said, that be will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. Observe,1 it is not said; the strong Oak shall not be broken, but the bruised reed shall not be broken; not the light and flaming torch, but the smoking flax, shall not be quenched.—Smoking flax, where there is but little fire, and much smoke of infirmity, yet Christ will not quench it,2 i. e. he will-cherish it; here is the figure Meiosis, here is less spoken then intended.—He will be so far from quenching, that he will cherish the smoking fl•x; as in another place God is said,3 that he will not despise a broken heart, i. e. He will highly esteem it.
I might produce a cloud of testimonies to confirm this point. Our Saviour Christ said, that be wil not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. Observe,1 it is not said; the strong Oak shal not be broken, but the bruised reed shall not be broken; not the light and flaming torch, but the smoking flax, shal not be quenched.—Smoking flax, where there is but little fire, and much smoke of infirmity, yet Christ will not quench it,2 i. e. he will-cherish it; here is the figure Meiosis, here is lesse spoken then intended.—He will be so far from quenching, that he will cherish the smoking fl•x; as in another place God is said,3 that he will not despise a broken heart, i. e. He will highly esteem it.
- 1Mat. 12. 20
- 2Verba p••iu ad cor nostrum quàm ad cor Dei accommodata.