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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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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.
6. Grant it be true, that thou art less sanctified then before, thou hast decayed sadly, Let this then quicken thee up to make the more haste for the future; Let this stumbling make thee get ground, Sometimes a David, a Peter, are left to fall, that they may rise and go the faster; After some diseases the child groweth more then ever, The Traveller that hath overslept himself, doubles his pace; Thus let thy very decays do good to thee.
6. Grant it be true, that thou art lesse sanctified then before, thou hast decaied sadly, Let this then quicken thee up to make the more haste for the future; Let this stumbling make thee get ground, Sometimes a David, a Peter, are left to fall, that they may rise and go the faster; After some diseases the childe groweth more then ever, The Traveller that hath overslept himself, doubles his pace; Thus let thy very decaies do good to thee.