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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the Author of grace how irresistibly he doth communicate his grace I will work and who can let it It 's true not only of Gods eternal deliverances but is as true of Gods working grace in the hearts of his people Who shall let 1. Satan shall not for though he be a strong man and armed and hath got possession yet when Christ comes he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stronger then Satan 2. Sin shall not be able to hinder Gods work of grace Grace shall be too hard for the strongest opposition that is made against it It is true a man may and doth resist the grace of God with a gainsaying and contradicting resistance but not with an overcoming resistance 3. Thirdly look up to Jesus the bestower of grace how proportionably he gives grace suitable and answerable to thy temptations and need God divides to every one his grace ●nd gifts severally as he will and yet he gives grace that shall be enough My grace is sufficient for thee said God to Paul sufficient to quell corruptions sufficient to repell temptation sufficient to make thee wait upon me ●ill I give thee deliverance 5. Be exhorted to have recourse to Jesus Christ for supply of grace Go to Jesus and by the Prayer of faith approach to the Throne of grace and beg grace to help thee in time of need Go unto God by Christ and God through Christ will supply all your wants My God saith Paul to the Philippians shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Iesus Christ Go to this God and expresse your selves before his throne with sensible complaints and earnest requests say Lord seeing there is so much water in the fountain why should my cisterne be empty such fulnesse of grace in Christ and so little grace in my heart Lord hast thou not gifts for men yea for the rebellious also and that 's the worst that can be said of me and hast thou not a blessing for me also 3. Vse of caution though we say that all grace is in and from Christ 1. This should not cut off our endeavours after grace we should so earnestly labour to get grace as if there were no way to have it but by our endeavours we should so strive to get heaven as if it were to be gotten by by our fingers by our own pains Gods promises and purposes of giving grace should rather quicken and greaten then any ways slacken our endeavours after grace See how the apostle makes Gods working grace in us a ground why we should work Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure And again I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end but see also how God joyns their duty with his promise the means unto the end Then shall ye call upon me and ye shal go and pray unto me and I wil hearken unto you So also in the prophesie of Ezekiel the Lord had promised to do great things for them and then addes Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them Gods promise to David to build him an house did not at all slack his prayer to God for that purpose for thus we finde David praying Thou O my God hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee And now Lord thou art God and hast promised this goodnesse to thy servant now therefore let it please thee to blesse the house of thy servant that it may be before thee for ever for thou blessest O Lord and it shall be blessed for ever Thus also did Paul By the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vaine but I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the grace of God which was in me See how he joyns Gods grace and his own indeavours together Thou must then so indeavour after grace as if it were to be gotten by labour and not bestowed by favour yet when thou hast done all thou canst thou must acknowledge grace to be free as if thou hadst not laboured at all 2. Though there be abundance of grace in Christ yet let all such as have no interest in Christ take heed how they flatter themselvs into a conceit that they shall receive grace frō Christ Interest in the Person gives communication of his grace As it was in Christs Person he could not have had those excellencies and attributes which were in God had not his two natures humane and divine been personally united in him And therefore it is said by vertue of the hypostatical union that in him i. e. in his Person dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily So unlesse there be that mystical union between Christ and us we could not be Partakers nor grow strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus Vnion is the ground of Communion and therefore we read first of receiving Christ and then afterwards of receiving of his fulnesse grace for grace Though thou art near Christ by Profession yet if thou art not one with Christ by faith thou canst not receive any vertue from him If a man tie food to any part of his body it will not nourish him because it is not received concocted or concorporated that only nourishes which becomes one and the same substance with us So we receive strength and increase of grace from Christ as we are united unto him by faith Take a graft and tie it to a tree and it brings forth no fruit but let it be united unto a tree by implantation then the graft growes fruitful so without Christ or as it is in the Original separate from Christ you can do nothing He that by faith is not planted together in the likenesse of Christs death shall never receive spiritual nourishment from him He that doth not abide in Christ is cast forth as a Branch he was never a true Branch only seemed to be one Christ is a fountain of grace but it is faith that draws out of this fountain Christ is a treasury of grace but it is faith that unlocks this treasury By our communion with Christ we receive grace for grace We are made by love meeknesse and patience like unto Christ but by faith we are made one with Christ and that Union is the cause of communion and therefore Christlesse persons are gracelesse persons 3. If men want grace yet let them know that not Christ but themselves are to blamed There is fulnesse in Christ there is grace enough in Christ in him there is fulnesse of sufficiency of efficiency and of redundancy but if