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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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3. None but a godly man knows of his dying, so as to consider that there is a necessity that sin must dye in him before his body ⟨p. 208⟩dies. […] an Heathen could say, Let thy vices dye before thee. 1There must not be only a suspension, but a mortification of sin. A godly man considers, though I live blamelessly, that men cannot say, Black is mine eye to any outward practice, yet I must have my inward lusts and corruptions dye before my body dye; and therefore they ought to be conversant in things that tend to mortification this is to know death considerately and affectionately; whereas wicked men consider of death notionally, their senses tell them that all must die. They say all men, men, young and old, rich and poor must dye; but this is but matter of discourse in them, but the godly know it with savoury knowledge.
3. None but a godly man knows of his dying, so as to consider that there is a necessity that sin must dye in him before his body ⟨p. 208⟩dies. 〈…〉 an Heathen could say, Let thy vices dye before thee. 1There must not be only a suspension, but a mortification of sin. A godly man considers, though I live blamelesly, that men cannot say, Black is mine eye to any outward practice, yet I must have my inward lusts and corruptions dye before my body dye; and therefore they ought to be conversant in things that tend to mortification• this is to know death considerately and affectionately; whereas wicked men consider of death notionally, their senses tell them that all must die. They say all men, men, young and old, rich and poor must dye; but this is but matter of discourse in them, but the godly know it with savoury knowledge.
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