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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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That though all men do know notionally they must dye, 1yet only godly men know it practically and considerately. To know practically of your dying, consider before hand, how shall I do to launch into the eternal gulf? what shall become of me in another world, when I leave this? Is my peace made with God? Is my person justified? Am I in a state of grace? Now Jobs speech hath latitude in it, I know thou wilt bring me to death, that is, I do so know it, that I will provide for it, and I will prepare for it, and I will lay a foundation for eternal life. Solomon speaking of Funeral solemnity,2 saith he, It is better to go to the house of mourning, then to go to the house of feasting, that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. I but all men that do do not lay death to heart, they may perhaps talk of death at a Funeral, but the living they shall lay it to heart,3 lay it upon the heart, ⟨p. 207⟩as the Hebrew, they shall lay it to heart, and lay it upon their hearts, so Tremelius. 4A wicked man lays it upon his tongue, but a godly man lays this truth upon his heart. There is none but a godly man, that so knows any thing of dying; as to know it so practically, affectionately and considerately, and so as to do these three things.
That though all men do know notionally they must dye, 1yet only godly men know it practically and considerately. To know practically of your dying, consider before hand, how shall I do to launch into the eternal gulfe? what shall become of me in another world, when I leave this? Is my peace made with God? Is my person justified? Am I in a state of grace? Now Iobs speech hath latitude in it, I know thou wilt bring me to death, that is, I do so know it, that I will provide for it, and I will prepare for it, and I will lay a foundation for eternal life. Solomon speaking of Funeral solemnity,2