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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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The first Use, is an use of comfort to the godly, they may be comforted upon this doctrine. This doctrine is a doctrine that is dreadful to wicked men, their graves are dungeons to them; but to Gods children the grave is an house. Now you may be comforted upon these four considerations.
The first Vse, is an use of comfort to the godly, they may be comforted upon this doctrine. This doctrine is a doctrine that is dreadful to wicked men, their graves are dungeons to them; but to Gods children the grave is an house. Now you may be comforted upon these four consideratious.
1 That though the grave be an house, yet be comforted, it is a resting house, Job▪ 3 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, 1and there ⟨p. 213⟩the weary be at rest. He speaks here of the grave in vers. 13. For now should I have lien still and been quiet, I should have slept, then had I been at rest. There is no work to be done in this house, Eccles. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest. Isa. 57. 2. They shall rest in their beds.
1 That though the grave be an house, yet be comforted, it is a resting house, Iob▪ 3 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, 1and there ⟨p. 213⟩the weary be at rest. He speaks here of the grave in vers. 13. For now should I have lien still and been quiet, I should have slept, then had I been at rest. There is no work to be done in this house,