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A49244	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.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3156; ESTC R214001	127,409	242

them passes to go to Jerusalem to worship God and incouraged them therein notwithstanding the rage of his father who had forsaken the true worship of God and set up Calves at Dan and Bethel Others think the goodnesse of this young Prince was in this that he would not consent to his father in taking away the government from the house of David but where the Scripture hath not a tongue to speak we have not an eare to hear and therefore we shall not undertake to determine what the Scripture hath not determined There are many collaterall observations which I shall deduce from the severall circumstances in the text and but name some of them From the consideration that this good Abijah died Good men and usefull and hopefull instruments may be taken away by death when wicked men may live long upon the earth Bad Jeroboam lived long his good sonne died soon so true is that of Solomon A righteous man may perish in his righteousnesse when a wicked man may prolong his dayes in his wickednesse Briers and Thorns and Thistles wither not so soon as Lilies and Roses they may be taken out of the world of whom the world is not worthy and they remaine behind who are not worthy to live in the world 2. From the consideration of the death of godly Abijah when wicked Nadab the other son of Ieroboam lived Observe That good children may be taken away by death from their parents when ungodly children may live to be a shame and a curse to their parents 3. From the consideration of the cause why this gracious young man died so soon it was for his fathers sins as we may gather from vers 9 10 11 12. That good children as well as bad may be outwardly punished for the sins of their parents 4. From all Israels lamenting the death of this hopefull young man Observe That good men who have been and might be further usefull in their lives should be much lamented at their death they that have lived desired should die lamented 5. From these words he shall go to his grave in peace It is a great blessing to go to ones grave in peace in times of war and common calamity He was good towards God He is good indeed who is so to God as well as unto men many are good in mans sight that are not so in the sight of God There are two other circumstances upon which I shall a little inlarge my selfe before I come to the main point I intend to handle From the age of this son of Ieroboam who is here commended for his goodnesse it is said he was a childe vers 12. Whence it may be observed It is very commendable to see goodnesse in young people to see young men good men is a very commendable thing There were many good men in that time but to be good so soon as Abijah was when he was a child the Scripture records this to his praise 1. I shall shew you that it is a commendable thing to see young men good men This I prove First Because the Scripture makes very honourable mention of young men when good men as first of Obadiah that he feared the Lord from his youth And it is recorded to the honour of Timothy that be knew the holy Scriptures from a child Ierome conceives that Iohn was the most beloved disciple because he was the youngest of all God remembers the kindnesse of our youth God takes more kindly the kindnesse of our youth then of our age It was matter of joy unto Iohn that he found children walking in the truth Secondly Because God commends morall and common goodnesse in the young man in the Gospell Christ is said to love him for his moral goodnesse and naturall ingenuity 2. The reason why it is so commendable in a young man to be a good man is this because their temptations are more and their affections are stronger to carry them from God youth hath a stronger aptitude and proclivity to sinne then any other age their blood is sooner stirr'd up to choler and their strength to lust As every relation hath its speciall sin so every age of a mans life old age is peevish and covetous middle age proud malicious and revengful young men are usually rash lustful and voluptuous and therefore Paul bids Timothy fly all youthfull lusts and therefore seeing youth is exposed to so many temptations and subject to so many corruptions it is rare to see young men good Oh then be exhorted you that are young to become religious betimes and to quicken you hereunto Consider 1. If you be not good in your youth you can never use the Psalmists arguments Cast me not off O Lord in the time of my old age for sake me not when my strength faileth v. 9. and his argument he had before v. 5. for thou art my hope and h●st been my trust from my youth and who would be without such an argument on his death-bed 2. Consider there are recorded in Scripture many young men that were good of al sorts and conditions and of all callings and the Holy Ghost doth not only set down their goodnesse but their age in which they were good Solomon a young King Obadiah a young Courtier Daniel a young Prophet Iohn a young Apostle Timothy a young preacher and here Abijah a young Prince and all these were good men and are recorded for our example and incouragement 3. Consider that God in the dispensations of his grace bestows it upon young men and passeth by the elder Thus Abel the younger was righteous and Cain wicked Iacob the younger brother loved and Esau hated Thus David the youngest of Iesses sons and yet the best of them and the chosen of the Lord. God doth many times do as Iacob did when he blessed the children of Ioseph he stretched out his right hand laid it upon the head of Ephraim the younger so doth God in the dispensation of his grace many times pitch on the youngest God saith as Ioseph of all the rest bring me Benjamin and gives him a double portion 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 the 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 a bruise to thy conscience in thy youth mayest feel this in thy old age Those sins which now thou feelest not

and Man amongst the rational creatures are longest before they grow up to their full and perfect dimensions And as it is in nature so it is in grace there is a progresse from lesse to greater all this work is by degrees The godly are called Trees of Righteousnesse and yet this is by degrees There is first the budding forth of the earth and then those things that are sown spring forth c. v. 11. And therefore let young Converts learne from hence not to be discouraged Gods works both of nature and grace are perfected by degrees 1. Though God regards the least measures of grace let not this make you regardlesse to grow in grace In the first creation God said to the creatures Increase and multiply and by vertue of that word the earth brings forth to this day Now it is so in the new and second Creation the Lord expects that our grace should increase and multiply 2. Though you have but a little grace yet do not despise it or disparage it Oh do not despise the day of small things in the soul Do not tread upon the bunch of grapes upon the new wine in the cluster but say there is a blessing in it Do not despise a little grain of mustard-seed it will grow to a tree true grace is a spark of heaven do not tread it out despise not the least and be not satisfied with the greatest measure of grace 1. Let this comfort thy poor soul Oh weak Christian whose burden it is that thou hast much corruption and but little grace God will look over a great deale of sin and will take notice of the least grace God will not in refining his gold and silver lose one dram of grace though it lie among a heap of rubbish Christ is said to have his Fan in his hand he will throughly purge his floore and gather his wheat into his garner Now the use of a Fan is to cast out the worst and keep in the best to drive away the chaffe and save the wheat so Christ though he purge out the chaffe of corruption yet he will save and preserve every grain of grace It is otherwise with the devils Sieve Christ tells Peter that Satan desired to sift him Now the use of the Sieve is contrary to the Fan for that keeps the waste and le ts out the best The devil doth all he can to destroy our grace and to increase our sin But 't is otherwise God will kill thy corruptions and cherish thy graces and if the least grace be in the soul though with a mixture of much corruption God will not despise it God carries the most tender regard to those that are weak in grace the weak child is still carried in our armes and the weakest of the flock the good shepherd will carry in his bosome Christ gave Peter charge in the first place to feed his Lambs 1. Gods care over weak Christians is such that he will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able but with the temptation will make a way to escape that they shall be able to ●●ar it God doth consider we are but dust and the wise Physician of our soules will mercifully weigh every grain of every dose and will not outmatch their strength whose strength is small 2. God will not put them on difficult duties at the first Christ taught his disciples such doctrines as their weaknesse could bear 3. God will bear with their infirmities he teacheth his children to go and holds them up by the armes VI. Sermon At Lawrence Ju●y London March 30. 1651. 2 TIM 2. 1. Be strong in the grace of God that is in Christ Jesus HAving lately handled the Doctrine of the small beginnings and the least measures of true grace and shewn you how God will accept and reward them by opening to you that passage in 1 Kings 14. 13. Concerning Jeroboam's sonne in whom there was found some good And lest that doctrine should accidentally through the corruption of our deceitfull hearts beget in us spiritual sloth and satisfaction in weak degrees of grace therefore I shall prosecute my discourse concerning the degrees of grace and shew you that though God regards weak grace yet we must all labour to obey this Apostolical injunction to be strong in the grace of God which is in Christ Jesus In the whole verse you have three parts 1. A loving Compellation My son 2. A pressing exhortation Be strong in grace 3. The reason of it in the illative Therfore 1. For the Compellation Qu●●re How Timothy could be Pauls son for his father was a Greek but Paul was a Jew of the Tribe of Benjamin Timothy then was not Pauls son in the flesh but in the faith Now A further question is Why is he called Paul's Son Baldwin gives this reason Because sayes he Paul begat him to the faith al Iedging that in 1 Cor. 4. 17. compared with vers 14. where Paul calls the Corinthians whom he had converted to the faith his beloved sonnes vers 14. and so he calls Timothy vers 17. But Timothy was not Pauls son in that sense for as Estius shewes he was converted long before Paul knew him by the godly instructions of his Grandmother Lois and his Mother Eunice The true reasons why Paul called Timothy his son were 1. Because Paul was aged and Timothy young and it was usual for the old to call the younger sonnes 2. Because he confirmed him in the faith 3. Because he loved him as a sonne and Timothy loved Paul as a father 4. Because as a sonne with the father he served Paul in the Gospel Before I come to the main doctrines let me observe something in the passage to it upon these reasons Paul calls Timothy his son From the compellation My son Observe 1. That Ministers should use loving insinuations towards their hearers to usher in useful instructions Soft words turn away wrath and hard flints are broken upon soft pillows This was Pauls practice here and elsewhere he gained their affections the better to reform their judgements 2. And then in that he calls him My Son in relation to himself as a father Observe That religion puts men into the neerest union and the most indeared relations They who are glued together in the bloud of Christ are knit together in the strongest bonds Now from the reason of the duty Therefore my son c. Expositors do vary what this illative particle hath a reference to Some make it to refer to v. 7. of the foregoing chapter and so Estius God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound minde and if so Then observe That the receiving the first degrees of grace should be a swaying reason to move us to grow in grace Others refer it to Pauls example v. 8. or to the example of