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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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Sermon 90: The Contraries to Growth in Grace. A Comfortable Advertisement to such as mourn under t…
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Those that are already sanctified may yet be further sanctified, and that in several particulars, as you have heard.
THose that are already sanctified may yet be further sanctified, and that in several particulars, as you have heard.
There remain some other Instances to be added, wherein this increase of Sanctification may appear.
There remain some other Instances to be added, wherein this encrease of Sanctification may appear.
And the first which is also very remarkable is,1 That our Sanctification is to grow efficienter, by way of inviting, exhorting, and bringing home others to it; For thus we are more sanctified when we are enlarged to sanctify others instrumentally; This some take to be the meaning, Joh. 15.8. where Christ tells his Disciples, that herein his Father is glorified if they bring forth much fruit; And vers. 16. I have ordained you that you should go and bring forth much fruit, which is in respect of their ministerial employment; So then if thou askest how may I be more and more sanctified? The Answer is ready, Be sanctifying others actively and instrumentally: Think it the greatest honour in the world if thou art a means to make others holy, for though God would use no means or Instruments in the Creation of the world, yet he will in the Creation of the New Creature: Now Ministers they are by Office appointed to sanctify others: The word or Truth which is the Instrument of Sanctification is published by them; Therefore a sanctified Minister doth desire nothing more then to have a sanctified people, he desireth that it may be a Vineyard, a Garden, not a Wilderness that he is to till and look to, he crieth out with Rachel in a spiritual sense, Give me Children, else I die; All his Study and Sermons tend to this, that his Hearers may be sanctified, and certainly if Christ himself endured all that reproach and shame for Souls, he desireth to have the same mind that was in Christ; That as Christ is promised to see his Seed after the Travel of his Soul, So doth he pray, that after all his pains and endeavours he may see an holy Seed; So that your Sanctification is that for which we pray and preach, yea, private Christians in their way are to increase in their Sanctification by promoting it in others,