CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

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.

2. We are further to be Sanctified, because there remain Relics of corruption still to be subdued, Sanctifying grace doth expel sin but by degrees, Even as the heat by degrees doth expel the cold; Now the Apostle tells us, Gal. 6. what is in the hearts of all the godly, There are lusts rebelling against the Spirit, and there is a law of sin in our members, If then Sanctifying grace do not increase, sin will increase, If we be not further sanctified, we shall be further corrupted; The heart of a man is immediately susceptible of one of these either grace or sin; If then there be not more grace, there will be more sin, you cannot stand at a stay; If you swim not against the stream, the stream will bear thee down.