A30241:1798
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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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.
Secondly, Then will beginnings and endings be alike, when grace is radicated and enters ••ep enough into the soul. Though thou hast never such affections, such enlargements, yet if there be not a rooted and deep work of grace upon thy soul, it will never hold. This our Saviour pressed Matth. 13. The seed that grew up hopefully, miscarried because it had no rooting; and thus the house on the sandy foundation was ruined, because the builder did not dig deep enough. Hence the promise of Regeneration is Jer. 31. to put the Law of God in their inward parts, in the most intimate and deep parts of the soul; and therefore grace is called the inward man, and the hidden man of the heart: But ô how superficial and overly! How formal are most in this matter? They undertake to own the ways of godliness before ever they have laid a deep foundation. Hath thy repentance been deep enough, thy faith, thy love been rooted enough? If so, then the gates of hell shall never prevail against thee.
Secondly, Then will beginnings and endings be alike, when grace is radicated and enters ••ep enough into the soul. Though thou hast never such affections, such enlargements, yet if there be not a rooted and deep work of grace upon thy soul, it will never hold. This our Saviour pressed Matth. 13. The seed that grew up hopefully, miscarried because it had no rooting; and thus the house on the sandy foundation was ruined, because the builder did not dig deep enough. Hence the promise of Regeneration is Jer. 31. to put the Law of God in their inward parts, in the most intimate and deep parts of the soul; and therefore grace is called the inward man, and the hidden man of the heart: But ô how superficial and overly! How formal are most in this matter? They undertake to own the wayes of godliness before ever they have laid a deep foundation. Hath thy repentance been deep enough, thy faith, thy love been rooted enough? If so, then the gates of hell shall never prevail against thee.