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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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2. Christ is the meritorious cause of our Sanctification, and therefore not only remission of sin, but holiness and zeal is made the consequent of Christs death; And the Apostle doth not only Rom. 7.8. show, that we are justified by Christ, but also that the body of sin is mortified thereby. Thus Heb. 10. what Sanctification that Apostate had, is attributed to the blood of Christ; Christ then hath as efficaciously merited holiness, as happiness, He died to destroy the works of the devil; now our captivity to him, was not only in respect of guilt, but that bondage and slavery we were in to all lusts; and therefore those two benefits are like Castor and Pollux, one cannot be without the other.
2. Christ is the meritorious cause of our Sanctification, and therefore not only remission of sin, but holinesse and zeal is made the consequent of Christs death; And the Apostle doth not only Rom. 7.8. shew, that we are justified by Christ, but also that the body of sinne is mortified thereby. Thus Heb. 10. what Sanctification that Apostate had, is attributed to the blood of Christ; Christ then hath as efficaciously merited holinesse, as happinesse, He died to destroy the workes of the devil; now our captivity to him, was not onely in respect of guilt, but that bondage and slavery we were in to all lusts; and therefore those two benefits are like Castor and Pollux, one cannot be without the other.