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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 12: Quest. How we may grow in the Knowledge of Christ? SERMON XII.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Christ is their Saviour; a Saviour from the greatest Evils; Sin and the miserable effects of it, in time, in eternity; a Saviour to the greatest Blessedness, an everlasting Kingdom and Glory; a Saviour of that which is most precious; the Soul, which if safe, the whole man must needs be secured. The Text may be considered with a double reference, to what goes before, to what follows after.
2. Christ is their Saviour; a Saviour from the greatest Evils; Sin and the miserable effects of it, in time, in eternity; a Saviour to the greatest Blessedness, an everlasting Kingdom and Glory; a Saviour of that which is most pretious; the Soul, which if safe, the whole man must needs be secured. The Text may be considered with a double reference, to what goes before, to what follows after.
1. To what goes before, grow in Grace and Knowledge [Greek or Hebrew], and hence we may observe, That the way to increase in Grace is to increase in the Knowledge of Christ, the means of Grace will be found inefficacious and empty, will convey nothing, if Christ be not with them, and in them; if he be not understood by those that use them. All that fullness out of which the Church is replenished from the beginning of the world to the very end of it; it has pleased the Father should dwell in Christ Col. 1.19.
1. To what goes before, grow in Grace and Knowledg 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and hence we may observe, That the way to increase in Grace is to increase in the Knowledg of Christ, the means of Grace will be found inefficacious and empty, will convey nothing, if Christ be not with them, and in them; if he be not understood by those that use them. All that fulness out of which the Church is replenished from the beginning of the world to the very end of it; it has pleased the Father should dwell in Christ