Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

And further, if you know Christ more, you are grown more; the Apostle puts them both together: Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

But take one more. If that you do as much as before, and deny your doing more then you did before, then you are grown in grace. One man doth much, and denies himself little; another doth much, and denies himself much: who hath most grace of these two? The husband-man will tell you, that when the ear of corn is not so ripe, it stands bolt-upright; but when it's more ripe, then it hangs down its head, and looks to the earth: and so heretofore it may be you were much in prayer, and in duty, you wept much; ⟨p. 19⟩and it was well that you were much in duty and humiliation for sin; but it may be then you rested upon your duties, and denied your self little. I but now you are as much, but you have seen more of the free grace of God, and the love of God in Christ, and now you deny your duties more, and rest less upon them then you did; this is a growth now; and where these things are, you may conclude that you are grown. And I say to every soul here, Is there any one that doth find these things? thou art the man or woman that doth grow in grace, and doth increase; therefore be of good comfort, thou art not declined, thou art not abated, thou hast truth of grace, thou hast growth of grace.

But take one more. If that you do as much as before, and deny your doing more then you did before, then you are grown in grace. One man doth much, and denies himself little; another doth much, and denies himself much: who hath most grace of these two? The husband-man will tell you, that when the ear of corn is not so ripe, it stands bolt-upright; but when it's more ripe, then it hangs down its head, and looks to the earth: and so heretofore it may be you were much in prayer, and in duty, you wept much; ⟨p. 19⟩and it was well that you were much in duty and humiliation for sin; but it may be then you rested upon your duties, and denied your self little. I but now you are as much, but you have seen more of the free grace of God, and the love of God in Christ, and now you deny your duties more, and rest less upon them then you did; this is a growth now; and where these things are, you may conclude that you are grown. And I say to every soul here, Is there any one that doth finde these things? thou art the man or woman that doth grow in grace, and doth increase; therefore be of good comfort, thou art not declin'd, thou art not abated, thou hast truth of grace, thou hast growth of grace.