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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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2. Your grave is a dark house, I have made my bed in the darkness, that is, in the grave. The grave is like the sleeping room in a house, not like the dining room and working room. The dining room is to be light, and so the working room, but the sleeping room is dark. 'Tis but the stopping of the mouth of the grave, and it is but the drawing of the Curtains of the bed, where thou shalt lye in darkness till the Resurrection• day. In the grave there is neither the light of the body, which is the eye; nor the light of the air, which is the Sun: the Sun it shall not shine there, nor the body see there; Therefore Eccl. 11. 9. Rejoice, Oh young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes, but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgement. And vers. 8. He had said remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. The meaning is this, The continuance in the grave, which is the house of darkness, shall be long, even to the end of the world.
2. Your grave is a dark house, I have made my bed in the darknesse, that is, in the grave. The grave is like the sleeping room in a house, not like the dining room and working room. The dining room is to be light, and so the working room, but the sleeping room is dark. 'Tis but the stopping of the mouth of the grave, and it is but the drawing of the Curtains of the bed, where thou shalt lye in darknesse till the Resurrection• day. In the grave there is neither the light of the body, which is the eye; nor the light of the aire, which is the Sun: the Sun it shall not shine there, nor the body see there; Therefore Eccl. 11. 9. Rejoyce, Oh young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth, and walk in the wayes of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes, but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgement. And vers. 8. He had said remember the dayes of darknesse; for they shall be many. The meaning is this, The continuance in the grave, which is the house of darknesse, shall be long, even to the end of the world.