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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. That though the grave be a house, yet be comforted, it is but a sleeping house, it is not a house where thou shalt be everlastingly. Beloved though it be a house, yet it is but a sleeping house; it shall not always keep your bodies; that is the meaning of Pauls exultation: O death, where is thy sting? Oh grave where is thy victory? 1He refers it to the Resurrection; the grave though it compass us, yet it shall not conquer us.
2. That though the grave be a house, yet be comforted, it is but a sleeping house, it is not a house where thou shalt be everlastingly. Beloved though it be a house, yet it is but a sleeping house; it shall not alwayes keep your bodies; that is the meaning of Pauls exultation: O death, where is thy sting? Oh grave where is thy victory? 1He refers it to the Resurrection; the grave though it compasse us, yet it shall not conquer us.
1. Though the grave be a house, yet be comforted, it is but a hiding house, such a house as is but a hiding place for Gods people. Job. 14. 13. Oh that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me in secret until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time and remember me. Times may be so calamitous, that there may be more safety under ground then above ground, they that have lain a long time in their graves, may be more happy then those that are living,1 Isa. 26. 20. Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy door about thee, hide thy self, as if it were for a little moment