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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. The grave is an old house, as old as Adam, he digged his grave with his own fingers;1 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. The grave it is a lasting house, a house where thou must stay a great while. Eccles. 11. 5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is ⟨p. 212⟩high, and fear shall be in the way, and the Almond tree shall flourish, and the Grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets, 'Tis a long home, a kind of a house of eternity, a long while till Christs coming to judgement, our long home, in opposition to our present houses, that is; our short home. Your houses are your short homes, but the graves are your long homes.
3. The grave is an old house, as old as Adam, he digged his grave with his owne fingers;1 Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. The grave it is a lasting house, a house where thou must stay a great while. Eccles. 11. 5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is ⟨p. 212⟩high, and fear shall be in the way, and the Almond tree shall flourish, and the Grashopper shall be a burden, and desire shall faile, because man goeth to his leng home, and the mourners go about the streets, 'Tis a long home, a kinde of a house of eternity, a long while till Christs comming to judgement, our long home, in opposition to our present houses, that is; our short home. Your houses are your short homes, but the graves are your long homes.