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A sermon preached at the funeral of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence church,…A sermon preached at the funerall of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence church,…
A sermon preached at the funeral of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence church, August, 25. 1651. By Thomas Manton, minister of the gospel at Stoke-Newington near London.A sermon preached at the funerall of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence church, August, 25. 1651. By Thomas Manton, minister of the gospell at Stoak-Newington near London.
London: printed by J.B., 1651
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1. Oh consider what ground of comfort we have against the mortality of the body: Christ hath united body and soul, Christs mystical Body shall not want the least Member or Joint.
1. Oh consider what ground of comfort we have against the mortality of the body: Christ hath united body and soul, Christs mystical Body shall not want the least Member or Joynt.
2. God is in Covenant with your body and soul, God is the God of your flesh, though it remain with the dust of the wicked.
3. Christ hath purchased your body and soul, 1 Corinth. 6. 20. Yea are bought with a price, Therefore glorify Christ in your bodies; Christ will not loose one whit of his purchase: Therefore here is your comfort against the Mortality of the Body; God will call the grave to an account, What is become of my Abraham? my Isaac? and my Jacob? The grave shall give up their dead, when Christs ⟨p. 6⟩commands it: the grave is but a chest (and with reference be it spoken) Christ wares the Keys at his own Girdle; God hath a special care of your dust, when your friends and neighbours have left you in the grave, yet Christ hath not left you there.
3. Christ hath purchased your body and soul, 1 Corinth. 6. 20. Yea are bought with a price, Therefore glorifie Christ in your bodies; Christ will not loose one whit of his purchase: Therefore here is your comfort against the Mortality of the Body; God will call the grave to an account, What is become of my Abraham? my Isaac? and my Jacob? The grave shall give up their dead, when Christs