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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
That Christ died not only for our Justification, but Sanctification also. 1He made himself a Sacrifice, not only to remove the guilt of sin▪ but to remove and subdue the power of it, not only to make us happy, but also holy.
That Christ died not only for our Justification, but Sanctification also. 1He made himself a Sacrifice, not onely to remove the guilt of sinne▪ but to remove and subdue the power of it, not onely to make us happy, but also holy.
- 1Observ. Christ died not only for our justification also. Concerning this point consider,
Let us consider, What is implied in this, That Sanctification comes by Christs death. And
First, We are to know that Christ is the Cause of our Sanctification several ways, partly efficiently, for not only the Father and the Spirit, but Christ himself also is the cause of all the holiness we have,1 and therefore he is called the life, because he gives all supernatural life unto his, and is compared to the vine, Joh. 15. because as the branch separated from the Vine can bring forth no fruit; so neither is a man able without Christ to do the least holy action; he is also called the Head, and