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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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3. There is implied an utter unfitness and indisposition to any good work; as on the other side, a vessel sanctified was meet for his masters use; So that till we be sanctified by Christs blood, we have no fitness for any holy duty, iron can as well swim and logs fly, as a natural man be prepared to do that which is holy and supernatural.
3. There is implied an utter unfitnesse and indisposition to any good work; as on the other side, a vessel sanctified was meet for his masters use; So that till we be sanctified by Christs blood, we have no fitnesse for any holy duty, iron can as well swim and logs flie, as a natural man be prepared to do that which is holy and supernatural.
1Thirdly, That our Sanctification is here attributed to Christs Sanctification of himself, we see,
- 1III. What may be inferred from our being sanctified by Christs sanctifying himself.
1. That the initials and beginnings of Sanctification, are wholly from him. Some have endeavoured to make the very Heathens partakers of some kind of sanctification, making a pietas pagana, as well as Christiana, but they are to fear lest that might be applied to them, which Bernard did to Abailardus, Dumb sudat Platonem facere Christianum, scriptum facit Ethnicum. There is no sanctification but where Christ is, and Christ and his body cannot be separated, as the gold only in the Temple was sanctified; and this is good to lay us low, and to make us admiring of the grace of Christ, How is it thou art sanctified, and others remain profane, polluted like brute beasts, who hath made this difference? Who infused this holy nature into thee? Wast thou not as loathsome, as wallowing in the filth of thy lusts, as others till Christs blood did cleanse thee?