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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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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.
2. Not only the initials, but progressives, and consummatives in Sanctification, are to be attributed to his Sanctification. Therefore you heard him called the finisher, as well as the author of our faith; and the Disciples, though already sanctified, yet are still more and more to be sanctified. It's true, here is a difference between our first Sanctification, and the increase of it at first, we were wholly passive; Christ found us dead in our sins, and wallowing in our blood, but afterwards he finds us alive, only needing his continual exciting and quickening grace; Therefore Paul, though converted, yet still lives a life of faith in Christ; we need Christ all the day long: How unholy, earthly, dull and lumpish is thy heart, if Christ did not constantly sanctify it?
2. Not only the initials, but progressives, and consummatives in Sanctification, are to be attributed to his Sanctification. Therefore you heard him called the finisher, as well as the authour of our faith; and the Disciples, though already sanctified, yet are still more and more to be sanctified. It's true, here is a difference between our first Sanctification, and the increase of it at first, we were wholly passive; Christ found us dead in our sinnes, and wallowing in our blood, but afterwards he findes us alive, onely needing his continual exciting and quickening grace; Therefore Paul, though converted, yet still lives a life of faith in Christ; we need Christ all the day long: How unholy, earthly, dull and lumpish is thy heart, if Christ did not constantly sanctifie it?
1Fourthly, This Sanctification purchased by Christ must be in truth and integrity; so Christ addeth, sanctified in the truth, that is, truly, in opposition to those legal and ceremonial sanctifications which did only cleanse the body, but not reach to the soul. Although in the New Testament we have no such external bodily Sanctification, yet still there is an outward Sanctification, and an inward, both coming by Christ, and one separable from the other. Thus you heard, the apostate is said to be sanctified by the blood of Christ, which was not indeed and truly so, for then he would not have totally fallen off, but in respect of the external administration. Hence