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

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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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1. There is an extension in respect of our Objects of Grace. As we are bound to do better then we do; so to do more then we do. What godly man is there, that can say, he hath done all things God required? Art thou not guilty of many omissions of duties? Thou hast not reproved, mourned, prayed for others; Thou hast not done that spiritual and temporal good thou shouldst. Paul excused the Philippians that they would have done good, but they wanted an opportunity, Phil. 4.16. But how many times have we an opportunity, and we want hearts? John could write to that pious Gaius his Host, 3 John vers. 2. to wish that his body may be in health, even as his soul prospered. What a glorious commendation was this? It was better with his soul, then his outward man. Now we cannot say thus of our selves, because we are not diligent and industrious to do more then we do. Certainly, every godly man may be astonished, when he shall consider, how broad the Commandments of God are, and how narrow his heart is grown in doing more then thou hast done.

1. There is an extension in respect of our Objects of Grace. As we are bound to do better then we doe; so to do more then we doe. What godly man is there, that can say, he hath done all things God required? Art thou not guilty of many omissions of duties? Thou hast not reproved, mourned, prayed for others; Thou hast not done that spirituall and temporall good thou shouldst. Paul excused the Philippians that they would have done good, but they wanted an opportunity, Phil. 4.16. But how many times have we an opportunity, and we want hearts? John could write to that pious Gaius his Host, 3 John vers. 2. to wish that his body may be in health, even as his soul prospered. What a glorious commendation was this? It was better with his soule, then his outward man. Now wee cannot say thus of our selves, because we are not diligent and industrious to doe more then we doe. Certainly, every godly man may be astonished, when he shall consider, how broad the Commandements of God are, and how narrow his heart is growne in doing more then thou hast done.

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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.