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

Wherein you have, 1. The final Cause. 2. The Manner of accomplishing it.

The final Cause, That they might be sanctified: and from this the Socinian would argue, That Sanctification in the former clause, was not meant of an oblation by way of Sacrifice, because the same word is applied to the Apostles in the Text, and they were not to be sacrificed for us.

To answer this: First, Some Expositors do expound it of their offering up of themselves by Martyrdom to confirm the truth, for Paul professeth his willingness herein, using the word [Greek or Hebrew], Phil. 2.15. which was used of some kind of their Sacrifices; but we need not run to that, it's no new thing in Scripture to use the same word in one verse, in different significations; and it's a Rule, Talia sunt praedicata, qualia permittuntur à subjectis. The Apostles then, needing not such a Sanctification, as Christ applied to himself, but that for which he prayed in the former verse. We must understand it in the same sense as there. It's true, by Sanctification, some also will have Justification comprehended, and so speak of an imputed Sanctification, but we need not stretch the word violently, but understand it, first, Of making inwardly holy, ⟨p. 515⟩and then consequently, A setting apart, and dedicating our selves wholly unto God by living unto him, and thence observe,

To answer this: First, Some Expositours do expound it of their offering up of themselves by Martyrdom to confirm the truth, for Paul professeth his willingnesse herein, using the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,