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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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4. Distinguish between a further Sanctification in respect of the solidity of it, and the affectionateness of it; Every decay in affection is not presently an abating in grace, for godliness lieth chiefly in the mind and will, If these be solidly established and really bent for God, Though affections be not passionately and sensibly put forth, yet thou mayest grow a more sound and firm Christian.
4. Distinguish between a further Sanctification in respect of the solidity of it, and the affectionatenesse of it; Every decay in affection is not presently an abating in grace, for godlinesse lyeth chiefly in the minde and will, If these be solidly established and really bent for God, Though affections be not passionately and sensiby put forth, yet thou maist grow a more sound and firm Christian.
5. There is difference between a further Sanctification, and the certainty and evidence of it; Many a Christian groweth in holiness, yet he is not sensible of his growth as in nature a man groweth, yet doth not perceive it; What our Saviour spake of the spreading and growing of the Gospel, is true also in respect of Sanctification, Mar. 4.27. It's as if a man should cast Seed in the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the Seed spring up and grow he knoweth not how; Thus the godly they shoot out in grace, when yet they do not perceive it, yea, sometimes they are tempted to the clean contrary.
5. There is difference between a further Sanctification, and the certainty and evidence of it; Many a Christian groweth in holinesse, yet he is not sensible of his growth as in nature a man groweth, yet doth not perceive it; What our Saviour spake of the spreading and growing of the Gospel, is true also in respect of Sanctification, Mar. 4.27. It's as if a man should cast Seed in the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the Seed spring up and grow he knoweth not how; Thus the godly they shoot out in grace, when yet they do not perceive it, yea, sometimes they are tempted to the clean contrary.