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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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First Use, 1is to condemn those, that when they lye on a sick-bed, they hope for life, but never think of death, their own guiltiness and their own wickedness of living doth so fill them with fear and horror, that the thoughts of death are irksome and tedious to them. Just like Lewis the eleventh ⟨p. 204⟩King of France, when he lay sick of a dangerous disease, he charged his servants and attendants, that they should not speak of death in his hearing. Many mens bodies are Magazines and Hospitals of diseases, who when they are living never think of death, though there is but little betwixt them and the grave.
First Vse, 1is to condemn those, that when they lye on a sick-bed, they hope for life, but never think of death, their own guiltinesse and their own wickednesse of living doth so fill them with fear and horrour, that the thoughts of death are irksome and tedious to them. Just like Lewis the eleventh ⟨p. 204⟩King of France, when he lay sick of a dangerous disease, he charged his servants and attendants, that they should not speak of death in his hearing. Many mens bodies are Magazines and Hospitals of diseases, who when they are living never think of death, though there is but little betwixt them and the grave.
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Second Use, 1is to those that are healthful and strong; 'tis true, diseases are the immediate harbingers and fore-runners of death in an ordinary way, yet you may soon dye though a disease seize not on you. As the fruits of a tree do more perish by extraordinary winds and tempests, then do stay upon the tree, and are gathered by the husbandman: So violent diseases may soon kill you, though marrow be in your bones, and strength in your joints. Paracelsus a skilful Physician, he gloried, that if any man would follow his Physical Prescriptions, he should not dye any violent death, but merely through age, and yet that boasting man before he was forty years of age, he himself dyed of a Fever. Thus I have done with the first consideration, the Reasonableness of this; I am under a sore disease, and therefore I do think of death.