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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. It's true Sanctification in the permanency and continuance of it. Perseverance doth not make Sanctification to be true, but the truth of Sanctification makes it persevere: Perseverance is an effect, not a cause of true Sanctification, as the Apostle speaks, 1 John 2.19. They went from us, because they were not of us; As leaves fall from the Tree, when they have no more of their wonted nourishment; and this discovers the falsehood of those who appear sanctified only in some fits, and upon some sad afflictions on them.
3. It's true Sanctification in the permanency and continuance of it. Perseverance doth not make Sanctification to be true, but the truth of Sanctification makes it persevere: Perseverance is an effect, not a cause of true Sanctification, as the Apostle speaks, 1 John 2.19. They went from us, because they were not of us; As leaves fall from the Tree, when they have no more of their wonted nourishment; and this discovers the falshood of those who appear sanctified onely in some fits, and upon some sad afflictions on them.
4. Truth of Sanctification is discovered by the purity of our aims and ends. They love God, they obey him from such holy grounds as are suitable to the sanctified nature: As the hungry man loveth his food, because of his natural desire to it. Thus a sanctified man loveth and doeth that which is holy for holiness sake.
4. Truth of Sanctification is discovered by the purity of our aims and ends. They love God, they obey him from such holy grounds as are suitable to the sanctified nature: As the hungry man loveth his food, because of his naturall desire to it. Thus a sanctified man loveth and doeth that which is holy for holinesse sake.