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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. None but a godly man considers of his dying, that he dies deservedly, he tastes the bitterness, and feels the burden of sin; in his diseases and sense of approaching death, he considers with himself, that it is not a disease that will bring him to his grave, but the sins of his life that kill him.
1. None but a godly man considers of his dying, that he dies deservedly, he tastes the bitternesse, and feels the burden of sin; in his diseases and sense of approaching death, he considers with himself, that it is not a disease that will bring him to his grave, but the sins of his life that kill him.
2. None knows that he must dye so as a godly man, whose care it is to dye preparedly. A godly man he knows he must dye, and this knowledge makes him prepare for a dying time, to live every day as his last day. The Prophet he spake of death in the former part of Psal. 90.1 that the days of man are threescore and ten. See what follows, So teach us to number •ur days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom; he doth mean by numbering our days, to live so exactly as to count the number of our days to be so few, every day• as if this were the last day; and this time as the time of the coming of Christ to judgement.
2. None knowes that he must dye so as a godly man, whose care it is to dye preparedly. A godly man he knows he must dye, and this knowledge makes him prepare for a dying time, to live every day as his last day. The Prophet he spake of death in the former part of Psal. 90.1 that the dayes of man are threescore and ten. See what followes, So teach us to number •ur dayes, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom; he doth mean by numbering our dayes, to live so exactly as to count the number of our dayes to be so few, every day as if this were the last day; and this time as the time of the coming of Christ to judgement.