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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. 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.
6. It's Gods promise that such who are godly shall grow more holy, Isa. 40.29, 30, 51. They shall renew they shall mount up like Eagles; So Hos. 14.6, 7. That as it is a curse upon the wicked to grow worse and worse, so it's a blessing to the godly to grow better, If God will bless their outward store, make their oil increase, much more their graces.
6. It's Gods promise that such who are godly shall grow more holy, Isa. 40.29, 30, 51. They shall renew they shall mount up like Eagles; So Hos. 14.6, 7. That as it is a curse upon the wicked to grow worse and worse, so it's a blessing to the godly to grow better, If God will blesse their outward store, make their oyl encrease, much more their graces.