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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.
For the first Query,1 why the grave is compared to an house?
- 1Query 1.
1. This Reason some Authors give, because ⟨p. 210⟩in ancient times, (as hath been hinted) among the Egyptians their graves and sepulchres, they were made after the fashion of houses, with Arches, and such kind of superstructures; therefore they say it is called an house.
2. Other Authors give this reason; because that as a man after a days labour abroad, he comes to his house for rest, so a man after a life's labour in this world, he comes to his grave, as to his house for rest.
2. Other Authors give this reason; because that as a man after a dayes labour abroad, he comes to his house for rest, so a man after a lifes labour in this world, he comes to his grave, as to his house for rest.