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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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So Ephes. 4.23, 24. There he writeth to such as are already converted, That they be renewed in the spirit of their mind, and that they put on the new man; yea to these Disciples our Saviour speaketh, Matth. 18.3. Except ye be converted, &c.
So Ephes. 4.23, 24. There he writeth to such as are already converted, That they be renewed in the spirit of their minde, and that they put on the new man; yea to these Disciples our Saviour speaketh, Matth. 18.3. Except ye be converted, &c.
By this you see, That even those who are sanctified or converted, may be more sanctified, and converted more closely to God: For although it be true, That if Sanctification be strictly taken for the same with Regeneration, then it's the infusion of a supernatural life at once: So that as a man is born but once naturally, so we may say, he is regenerated and sanctified but once; yet take it more largely for the improving and increasing of grace thus put into us; then we are to be more converted, and more sanctified daily; and in this respect, Sanctification is said to differ from Justification, because the former doth admit of degrees, and is more or less, but so is not Justification.
By this you see, That even those who are sanctified or converted, may be more sanctified, and converted more closely to God: For although it be true, That if Sanctification be strictly taken for the same with Regeneration, then it's the infusion of a supernaturall life at once: So that as a man is born but once naturally, so we may say, he is regenerated and sanctified but once; yet take it more largely for the improving and increasing of grace thus put into us; then we are to be more converted, and more sanctified daily; and in this respect, Sanctification is said to differ from Justification, because the former doth admit of degrees, and is more or lesse, but so is not Justification.