The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

And where the Scripture in many places doth call us perfect, as when it saith, ^kYe shall therefore be perfect, as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect. ^lWe speak wisdom among those that are perfect. ^mIn understanding be ye perfect, ⁿtill we come to a perfect man. ^oAs many therefore as be perfect, let us be thus minded. ^pWhosoever keepeth his Word, of a truth, in him the love of God is perfected. ^qIf we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ^rPerfect love casteth out fear. ^sThat ye may be perfect and wholly sound, wanting in nothing. By perfect, it meaneth not the exact performance of legal Righteousness, but the whole and total change of all the man, which yet in this life is evermore imperfect. And so doth James in that place last before mentioned, expound it. So that there is a Legal, and an Evangelical perfection, which rather and more properly is termed integrity. I call it total: first, in respect that the whole man, and all our parts and powers both of the soul and body are renewed, as the Apostle to the ^tThessalonians prayeth, that their Spirit, soul and body may be kept unblameable in the coming of Jesus Christ.

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