CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Name: CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
Author: Anthony Burgess

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 ...

Anthony Burgess d. 1664London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656

[31], 672 [i.e. 702], [24] p. · 465k words · Wing B5651 · ESTC R13734

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Sermon 89: Of growth in Grace, showing that, and how many ways, a Godly man may be more sanctified.Sermon 89: Of growth in Grace, shewing that, and how many wayes, a Godly man may be more sanctified.

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First, He may be more sanctified intensively, by adding more and more degrees to the grace he hath received. Our Love, our Faith, our Patience, even all our Graces are capable of augmentation. It's not with us;¹ as with Christ, who received the Spirit without measure; so that Christ could not be more holy then he was; he could not do any thing more obedientially to God,² then he did, nor love God more then he did; but we may all cry out with that man, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief; Lord, I love, help my want of love: Therefore James 1.4. we are exhorted to let patience have her perfect work; Even as Apelles upon all his Pictures would write Faciebat non fecit, because he would still be perfecting it; thus are we to all our graces. Hence are those daily exhortations, To grow in Grace: Even a Paul, even the tallest Giants are to grow in Grace. Paul saith, He knoweth but in part, 1 Cor. 13. and then he can but love in part, and believe in part: Oh then, this is of great concernment, to think that thy best graces may yet be made far better! Thy Grace is nothing to a Pauls, and a Pauls is nothing to the Law, or the Rule, Look to it then, and be as desirous to grow in Grace, as ever thou wert to get into the state of Grace.

First, He may be more sanctified intensively, by adding more and more degrees to the grace he hath received. Our Love, our Faith, our Patience, even all our Graces are capable of augmentation. It's not with us;¹ as with Christ, who received the Spirit without measure; so that Christ could not be more holy then he was; he could not do any thing more obedientially to God,² then he did, nor love God more then he did; but we may all cry out with that man, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief; Lord, I love, help my want of love: Therefore James 1.4. we are exhorted to let patience have her perfect work; Even as Apelles upon all his Pictures would write Faciebat non fecit, because he would still be perfecting it; thus are we to all our graces. Hence are those daily exhortations, To grow in Grace: Even a Paul, even the tallest Gyants are to grow in Grace. Paul saith, He knoweth but in part,

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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

SERMON XC. The Contraries to Growth in Grace. A Comfortable Advertisement to such as mourn under their Sense of not Growing; With Reasons of the Necessity of Growing in Grace.

SERMON XC. The Contraries to Growth in Grace. A Comfortable Advertisement to such as mourn under their Sence of not Growing; With Reasons of the Necessity of Growing in Grace.

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SERMON XC. The Contraries to Growth in Grace. A Comfortable Advertisement to such as mourn under their Sense of not Growing; With Reasons of the Necessity of Growing in Grace.

SERMON XC. The Contraries to Growth in Grace. A Comfortable Advertisement to such as mourn under their Sence of not Growing; With Reasons of the Necessity of Growing in Grace.