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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 a child of God that hath not allowed guilt upon his conscience, 1he may and ought to re-present death to himself in such familiar representations, as may make it less dreadful and more desirable. Sometimes it is represented as going to bed, They shall rest in their bed. A godly man when he lieth upon his death-bed, and by sickness is weary of his life,2 tossing ⟨p. 209⟩to and fro till the dawning of the day, let him think the grave will be but a bed of rest unto him; so death is often styled a sleep. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, 3shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Death is embalmed with sweet and comfortable language.
That a child of God that hath not allowed guilt upon his conscience, 1he may and ought to re-present death to himself in such familiar representations, as may make it lesse dreadful and more desirable. Sometimes it is represented as going to bed, They shall rest in their bed. A godly man when he lyeth upon his death-bed, and by sicknesse is weary of his life,2 tossing ⟨p. 209⟩to and fro till the dawning of the day, let him think the grave will be but a bed of rest unto him; so death is often stiled a sleep. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, 3shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Death is embalmed with sweet and comfortable language.
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