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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. This is one great end of the Word, and the Preaching thereof; Sanctify them by thy Word, and Eph 4. We are to be edified, to a full stature in Christ, by the Officers in his Church, So that as the Sun and the Clouds help to make the Ground fruitful, as the Wind filling the Sails of the Ship makes it go more swiftly, So should the Ministry and Ordinances; Oh what knowledge and grace shouldest thou have attained to by this time, Let thy profiting appear to all, as Paul said to Timothy.
4. This is one great end of the Word, and the Preaching thereof; Sanctifie them by thy Word, and Eph 4. We are to be edified, to a full stature in Christ, by the Officers in his Church, So that as the Sun and the Clouds help to make the Ground fruitful, as the Winde filling the Sails of the Ship makes it go more swiftly, So should the Ministry and Ordinances; Oh what knowledge and grace shouldest thou have attained to by this time, Let thy profiting appear to all, as Paul said to Timothy.
5. The sweetness and excellency of grace if once tasted of, should make thee insatiable to have more, Shall the hydropical man the more he drinketh, the more desire it, and the earthly man, the more wealth he hath, be the more covetous of it? What a shame then is it if the more ghostliness thou hast thou art not the more desirous still to have more.
5. The sweetnesse and excellency of grace if once tasted of, should make thee insatiable to have more, Shall the hydropical man the more he drinketh, the more desire it, and the earthly man, the more wealth he hath, be the more covetous of it? What a shame then is it if the more gostlinesse thou hast thou art not the more desirous still to have more.