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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¹Thirdly, We may be more sanctified in the deeper radication of Grace in our hearts. It's a Philosophical Dispute, Whether accidents are intensed by addition of degrees, or a deeper radication of them in the subject? We may conclude, That grace in the heart is both ways improved, and for the rooting of it in the soul: This is so great a matter, that the temporary believer is in this respect as well as others, mainly differenced from the true believer. Though they had some root, yet they had not root enough, and the unwise builder did not dig deep enough; for this therefore the Apostle prayeth, even in reference to such as were already rooted in Christ, that they may be more rooted, Colos. 2.7. Rooted and built up in him. And to this purpose are all those Exhortations of being steadfast and immovable, of being strengthened, stablished. settled, 1 Pet. 5, 10. as there the Apostle prayeth remarkably. There is no man hath laid so sure a foundation, but he may make it more sure: No man is so established, but he may be more established: Is it not a terrible thing to see the fall of many Cedars in Lebanon, of many Stars from Heaven? And why is all this? They were never established deep enough, ⟨p. 461⟩they never took more root downwards; like unwise builders, they attended to make a glorious upper-room, and stairs in the house, but mattered not the foundation; and certainly, though the child of God, even of the lowest form, be so far rooted, that he shall never fall away, yet this establishment and steadfastness of his, is not by his own power and strength, it's God that keeps him, neither is it continued, but in the constant daily exercise of holy means: Oh then every day be endeavouring after this, Lord, grace is not rooted in me enough, it's too superficial! Oh that I could say, I no longer live, but Christ within me! Oh that it were like leaven diffusing it's power over me, the Promise is Jer. 31. I will write my Law in thine inwards parts, in the midst of them! So that grace shall be habituated in thee, and sink as deep, as ever original sin did in thee.

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

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