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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.
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.
5. True Sanctification is growing, and proficient every day more and more. That which hath solid root doth not wither, but ripens and flourisheth by the Sun-beams. The Apostles though already sanctified, yet are still to be more sanctified; and certainly such is the sweetness and peace which Sanctification ⟨p. 518⟩brings, that it's no wonder if the heart be never satisfied, but still crieth like the horseleech, Give, Give.
5. True Sanctification is growing, and proficient every day more and more. That which hath solid root doth not wither, but ripens and flourisheth by the Sunne-beams. The Apostles though already sanctified, yet are still to be more sanctified; and certainly such is the sweetnesse and peace which Sanctification ⟨p. 518⟩brings, that it's no wonder if the heart be never satisfied, but still crieth like the horsleech, Give, Give.