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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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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.
2. Let it check in you all covetous and inordinate desires after worldly things; Thou shalt come from lying in the dark house in the womb, to lye in the dark house of the grave. Oh what a vast company of inordinate and luxurious desires are there in the hearts ⟨p. 215⟩of men. In the womb one foot, in the cradle three foot will content you, and in the grave six foot, but when thou livest in the world a whole world will not content you, there is such inordinate and luxurious desires in mens hearts, when they have all affluence and confluence of creature comforts; Now they must have their variety of Houses, a Country-house, a Summer-house, a Winter house, yet thou must exchange thy many houses for one house, 'Tis worthy your notice that passage you read of in Scripture, 1 Sam. 10. 24. Samuel when he had anointed Saul King, and the people had chosen him; what signal doth he give him to confirm him anointed, it was to go to Rachels Sepulchre; now the reason is this, that he might not be glutted with the preferments & honours he was entering upon. The Emperors of Constantinople, in their inaugurations, on their Coronation days,