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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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Thirdly and Lastly, We are to be more sanctified in respect of Continuance and Duration; It is not enough that thou wert once made holy and Righteous, but thou art to continue and persevere therein to the end; For how many did begin in the Spirit, but yet have ended in the Flesh? You have a terrible Instance Hebr. 10.29. where a man said to be Sanctified by the Blood of Christ is yet said at last to tread under foot the Blood of Christ, making no account of it: It is true this man was not truly Sanctified, for then he could not have so totally apostatized, for he had some imperfect and inchoate motions of Sanctification, He was an Embryo and did prove abortive, and thus all the Ages of the Church have given sundry and sad Instances of such Hypocrisies and Apostasies: Therefore the Apostle John Revel. 22.12. after the divers Visions and Revelations he had about the Church, he concludeth, Let him that is holy be holy still, Let him continue and persist in his Holiness, So that whatsoever changes and alterations there may be in the Church, yet thou art not to change or to vary in thy Holiness,1 and certainly such is the opposition, and so great are the Contrarieties to all Sanctification in Heavens way, That it's a wonder of wonders that a man is not deprived, doth not lose all, or be discouraged out of it.
Thirdly and Lastly, We are to be more sanctified in respect of Continuance and Duration; It is not enough that thou wert once made holy and Righteous, but thou art to continue and persevere therein to the end; For how many did begin in the Spirit, but yet have ended in the Flesh? You have a terrible Instance Hebr. 10.29. where a man said to be Sanctified by the Bloud of Christ is yet said at last to tread under foot the Bloud of Christ, making no account of it: It is true this man was not truly Sanctified, for then he could not have so totally apostatized, for he had some imperfect and inchoate motions of Sanctification, He was an Embryo and did prove abortive, and thus all the Ages of the Church have given sundry and sad Instances of such Hypocrisies and Apostacies: Therefore the Apostle John