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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 34: Of Growth in Grace, The Duty, Necessity, and Glory of it.
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Thirdly, They may grow in the extension and kinds of all graces;1 It's the Apostle bids them add virtue to temperance, and so chains graces together, 1 Pet. 1. The people of God they sometimes are careful to avoid such and such sins, but then there are others either that they are not convinced of or do not attend unto, and there they sail frequently, but the godly man is to grow in extension, he is to avoid one sin as well as another; He is to perform one duty as well as another; Oh then remember the work of grace is an exact and circumspect thing; There go many things to make a man godly, we may leave out many necessary ingredients and then mar the whole box of ointment; David prayed to be cleansed from secret sins, Psa. 19.13. such as he did not understand to be sins; Oh it's happy when the godly are thus growing that they leave off many foolish customs they once practised; That they set upon many duties they once wholly omitted; These disciples how hardly were they drawn off from many doctrines that they had been brought up in.
Thirdly, They may grow in the extension and kindes of all graces;1 It's the Apostle bids them adde vertue to temperance, and so chains graces together, 1 Pet. 1. The people of God they sometimes are careful to avoid such and such sins, but then there are others either that they are not convinced of or do not attend unto, and there they sail frequently, but the god•y man is to grow in extension, he is to avoid one sinne as well as another; He is to perform one duty as well as another; Oh then remember the work of grace is an exact and circumspect thing; There go many things to make a man godly, we may leave out many necessary ingredients and then marre the whole box of ointment; David praied to be cleansed from secret sins, Psa. 19.13. such as he did not understand to be sins; Oh it's happy when the godly are thus growing that they leave off many foolish customes they once practised; That they set upon many duties they once wholly omitted; These disciples how hardly were they drawn off from many doctrines that they had been brought up in.