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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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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.
2. Another Effect of the Ministry is to promote the work of grace begun; It's to water where any Seed is sown, as Ephes. 4.11. to bring us to a full stature in Christ; Now a Minister without Truth can no more help forward the growth of the Godly then a dead Mother can nurse her Child; We increase in grace, by the same way we are converted, and therefore they who think by an erroneous Ministry to advance their Heavenly Life, do as if an hungry man should get up to an high Hill, and think by swallowing down the wind to live and grow stronger.
2. Another Effect of the Ministry is to promote the work of grace begun; It's to water where any Seed is sown, as Ephes. 4.11. to bring us to a full stature in Christ; Now a Minister without Truth can no more help forward the growth of the Godly then a dead Mother can nurse her Childe; We encrease in grace, by the same way we are converted, and therefore they who think by an erroneous Ministry to advance their Heavenly Life, do as if an hungry man should get up to an high Hill, and think by swallowing down the winde to live and grow stronger.
A Third Effect of the Ministry is to direct and guide the tempted and troubled Soul, to speak a word in season to him; But now a Minister without Truth is like a Physician without skill, Come to the diseased wounded Soul that lieth under this doubt and that Case of Conscience, he knoweth not how to direct him, yea, such do more trouble the godly, as God complaineth of the False Prophets, Eze. 13.22. they made sad the heart of the Righteous, whom God would not have made sad.