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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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To this I answer, that this Scripture intends not a natural and corporal death, but a spiritual and eternal death, and it is said, John 11. 25, 26. I am the resurrection and the life, he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet he shall live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die: That is, though he die naturally, yet he shall live eternally.
But you will say,1 Enoch was not buried, and Elijah was carried up in a chariot.
- 12. Object.
Particular examples do not frustrate general rules;1 though they were not laid in their graves, yet they underwent something equivalent to death. There was a particular reason why God translates Enoch and Elijah, because they were to be types of Christs Resurrection, and pledges of ours.
Particular examples doe not frustrate general rules;1 though they were not laid in their graves, yet they underwent something equivalent to death. There was a particular reason why God translates Enoch and Elijah, because they were to be types of Christs Resurrection, and pledges of ours.
- 1Sol.