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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1In the third place Let us Consider the Reasons, why that it's not enough to be sanctified, but we must be more and more holy every day.
- 1Reasons.
And 1. We are not sanctified to stand still there, We are yet in the way, we are not yet come to our journeys end; Hence our Christianity whilst in this Life is compared to running in a Race, We are not come to the term and end of our Sanctification, when we are first converted, We are but put into the right way to happiness, we are but beginners; We have much work to do ere we shall receive a Crown of Glory: You see that glorious Saint Paul, who laboured more then they all, yet Phil. 3.14. I press towards the mark, forgetting the things that are behind.
And 1. We are not sanctified to stand still there, We are yet in the way, we are not yet come to our journeys end; Hence our Christianity whilst in this Life is compared to running in a Race, We are not come to the term and end of our Sanctification, when we are first converted, We are but put into the right way to happinesse, we are but beginners; We have much work to doe ere we shall receive a Crown of Glory: You see that glorious Saint Paul, who laboured more then they all, yet Phil. 3.14. I presse towards the mark, forgetting the things that are behinde.