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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

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

wealth and land and yet wilt thou take up with poore measures of grace for Religion The ordinary answer of ignorant people is What must we be wiser then our forefathers and yet those people would be richer then their forefathers were and those that have great wealth left them by their forefathers yet are not satisfied with it unlesse they increase their estate let this shame that slothfulnesse and supine negligence of many who content themselves with measures of grace 5. And lastly consider that those who were eminent for grace in what esteem were they in the Church of God and with what honourable mention are they recorded in the Word of God such are remembred to be of note in the Church of God See what an Eulogium the Holy Ghost gives Job that there was none like him in the earth God loves those that are singularly and excellently good and ordinary pitch doth not so please him What do ye more then others Solomon was so renowned for wisdome that it is said That amongst many Nations there was no King like him that is for wisdom So Hezekiah was eminent for trusting in God Who feared not to break in pieces the broken serpent but trusted in God none like him of all the Kings ●f Judah And so eminent was the zeale of good Josiah after a thorough reformation that he is also crowned with this commendation And like him was there no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his might By all which instances it is cleare of what honourable esteem have the eminent particular graces of Gods servants been in the sight of the Lord. XIII Sermon at Lawrence Jury London April 20. 1651. 2 TIM 2. 1. My son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus HAving in the last foregoing Sermons treated of grace in its strength and growth I am come to speak to this additional clause in the text viz That is in Christ Jesus which passage is here inserted by the Apostle that he might let Timothy know to whom he was beholding for all the grace he had received even unto Jesus Christ In the tenth verse he speaks of salvation that is in Christ Jesus and here of grace that is in Christ Jesus so note 1. That Jesus Christ is the fountaine and foundation both of grace and glory Jesus Christ gives grace and Jesus Christ gives also salvation with eternall glory Ver. 10. 2. That those who receive grace from Christ Jesus shall also receive salvation by him for there is an inseparable union between grace and glory The grace of God that is in Christ Jesus Grace may be said to be in Christ 1. As a subject recipient and so Christ is said to be full of grace and truth he had the Spirit without measure it pleased the Father that in him all fulnesse should dwel 2. In Christ Jesus as a fountain redundant over-flowing ever-flowing to his people for of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace Again when it is said that grace is in Christ Jesus we must consider Christ 1. As God co-essential with the Father and he is the Author and giver of grace and of every good and perfect gift 2. Consider him as Mediatour God-man and so he is the purchaser and procurer of grace and of all the blessings of the New Convenant for the blessing of Abraham commeth upon the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through Christ Jesus So that by this phrase In Christ Jesus there are three things implied 1. That Jesus Christ is the Author and Giver of grace he onely is the Author and Finisher of faith and every grace in his people 2. That Christ is the purchase of grace so that all the grace that is bestowed upon us by God it is through Christ and for his sake Grace is from Christ as a fountain and by Christ as a Conduit 3. That Christ is the preserver of grace all the grace that is in us is in Christ Jesus he keeps all our graces for us As the beams of the Sun may be said to be the Sun because they are preserved by their union with the Sun Our life is bid with Christ in God hid as the life of a tree is hid in the root and the being of a stream is hid in the fountain And herein is the comfort of believers that their condition is more stable and immutable and safe then ever Adam was in innocency for he had all perfections of a creature but they were in their own keeping but now all the grace that is in a believer is in Christ Jesus by whom and in whom grace is safely preserved so as it shall never perish The point of doctrine I observe from these words is this That all those measures of grace whereof believers are partakers they receive them in and from Jesus Christ In the handling of which point I will thus proceed 1. Shew you the truth of it 2. Give you the reasons and grounds of it Now to prove that all grace is received in and through Christ 1. I will shew the truth of this by many resemblances to which Christ is compared in the Scripture 2. By many types of Christ in the Old Testament 3. By many expresse testimonies in the New Testament concerning this turth ● There are many resemblances in Scripture which do illustrate this that all grace is from Christ Jesus 1. He is compared to a root He is called the root of Jesse not only because he came of the stock of David but that he gives grace to Jew and Gentile that do believe for to him shall the Gentiles seek as it followes in the next words Now that the Prophet there speaks of Christ is plain by the Apostles expresse application of that prophesie unto Christ calling him the root of Jesse in whom the Gentiles should trust And Christ speaks of himselfe I am the Vine As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the Vine no more can ye except ye abide in me the life sap nourishment growth and fruitfulnesse of a branch is altogether from the root with which the branches have union and communion 2. Christ is called the Head of his people He is the Head of the body of the Church Now as sense and motion is derived from the head to the members of the body so also is grace derived from Jesus Christ to every true believer every living member of his body 3. Christ is called the Sun of Righteousnesse because as heat and light are communicated by the Sun to things here below so there is a sweet influence of grace from Christ upon believers As by vertue of the Sunnes influence the vegetable and sensible creatures live move and grow so also the life and growth of grace in the soul is from that divine influence