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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 5: Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
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.
2. Our Vocation is unto Holiness. Does God call any of his to come from the World and Sin unto him? As Christ called Saul, and His Sheep do hear his voice, they are called to be Saints, 1they are called to be made holy, and to be sanctified; whatsoever they were before, when once they come to Christ,2 but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified: Christ comes by Water and Blood, and not by Water or Blood only; and Christ is made of God unto us not only Righteousness, but Sanctification.3
3. Our Regeneration or being Born again, which the Gospel insists so much upon, is in being made like unto God, 1partakers of the Divine Nature, enabled to love what he loves, and to hate what he hates, and to be conformed unto him in all things: So that God and regenerate Ones have but one Will: Thus they are said to be created again unto good works.