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The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the…The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the…
The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessedness thereof. Being the sum and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for John Rothwell, 1654
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Dedication: To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, My Worthy Friends, Mr. EDWARD BRADSHAW, Major of the City of C…
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To help you forward in the ways and practices of real godliness, I commend unto your most serious perusal this, and other useful and practical Treatises of this reverend Author; which though it cannot be expected, that they should come forth with that exactness and accomplishment as they would have done, had the Author lived to publish them himself; yet I do assure you, that these Sermons have been diligently compared with his own papers, and notes taken from his own mouth, by the pen of a ready and intelligent writer.
To help you forward in the wayes and practices of real godlinesse, I commend unto your most serious perusal this, and other useful and practical Treatises of this reverend Authour; which though it cannot be expected, that they should come forth with that exactness and accomplishment as they would have done, had the Authour lived to publish them himself; yet I do assure you, that these Sermons have been diligently compared with his own papers, and notes taken from his own mouth, by the pen of a ready and intelligent writer.
The world, • confess, is now filled, even to satiety, and surfeit with unprofitable Pamphlets, 1whereby many foolish questions and disputes have arisen, which do engender strifes; 2& many opinions have been vented which do increase unto more ungodliness; but this book now presented unto you, is plain, practical, and spiritual, and will, I hope, be of great use unto Christians, to help them to a right understanding of their spiritual estate. These Sermons (as the date of them will show) were preached by Mr. LOVE, but a few months before his imprisonment and death: his gracious heart it ⟨image 3⟩seems, being to the last, much upon that great work, of advancing the power of Godliness in the souls of his hearers; and therefore, I hope will be the more acceptable, as being some of the last and ripest fruit of his growing and improving Ministry. These are the Sermons which he gave his consent should be published, and besides all these considerations, they are the rather printed, because so long expected, and earnestly desired by many, whose souls have cause to bless God for Mr. LOVE'S faithful Ministry, to all eternity.