CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Secondly, Their growth ought to be in depth and rooting of their graces; As the Apostle speaks of the dimensions of Gods love, it hath a depth, and a breath, Eph. 1. Thus the love of the godly and all their graces have their spiritual dimensions, and as before we spake of their growth in height, so now of growth downwards, in a better settling and deeper radicating of their holiness within them; Our Saviour speaks of a foolish builder, who did not dig deep enough, nor build on a rock, Mat. 7.26. and the three sort of hearers did all miscarry ⟨p. 189⟩upon this Point; There was not root rnough; What makes the backsliding Demas, the apostate Judas, but neglect of rooting? Oh then look every day that thy Repentance root it self more in the heart, That thy faith be more deeply implanted in thee, otherwise when a temptation or storm ariseth, thou wilt be plucked up by the roots, and certainly we may see this is the root of all evil to professors; They measure their graces by the boughs and branches thereof, not by the rooting; whereas we see in all trees the deeper the rooting is the better they are enabled to spread abroad, sear then lest thy graces be not got to the bottom of thy heart, fear lest something lie closer and deeper in thy heart then grace doth.

¹Secondly, Their growth ought to be in depth and rooting of their graces; As the Apostle speaks of the dimensions of Gods love, it hath a depth, and a breath, Eph. 1. Thus the love of the godly and all their graces have their spirituall dimensions, and as before we spake of their growth in height, so now of growth downwards, in a better setl•ng and deeper radicating of their holinesse within them; Our Saviour speaks of a foolish builder, who did not dig deep enough, nor build on a rock, Mat. 7.26. and the three sort of hearers did all miscarry ⟨p. 189⟩