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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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Though the grave be a house, yet be comforted it is a perfumed house, a house embalmed and perfumed by Christs lying in the grave. All the acts that Christ did, they were for our sakes. Christ died to save us by dying. Christ lay buried in the grave, to make the grave a bed of rest, he rose again from the dead to sanctify our resurrection, and by his presence there he hath perfumed this bed; this house the grave.
Though the grave be a house, yet be comforted it is a perfumed house, a house imbalmed and perfumed by Christs lying in the grave. All the acts that Christ did, they were for our sakes. Christ died to save us by dying. Christ lay buried in the grave, to make the grave a bed of rest, he rose again from the dead to sanctifie our resurrection, and by his presence there he hath persumed this bed; this house the grave.
Second Use for instruction. 1. Here is matter of meditation; when you are in your own houses, bethink your selves thus, Now I am here walking in my house, from chamber to chamber, but ere long my chamber shall be in the dust. Now I am coming to my bed in a dark night, but ere long God will put out the candle of my life, and will lay me in the grave, as in a bed of darkness. Now I am in my own house, but ere long my house will cast me our to my grave, and that is the house that will take me in.
Second Vse for instruction. 1. Here is matter of meditation; when you are in your own houses, bethink your selves thus, Now I am here walking in my house, from chamber to chamber, but ere long my chamber shall be in the dust. Now I am comming to my bed in a dark night, but ere long God wil put out the candle of my life, and wil lay me in the grave, as in a bed of darknesse. Now I am in my own house, but ere long my house wil cast me our to my grave, and that is the house that wil take me in.