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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.
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 1 Cor. 1.2. the whole Church of Corinth, though afterwards reproved for many sinful practices, yet are called sanctified, and ⟨p. 517⟩that partly, because of the external dispensation of the Ordinances which they enjoyed: So that there is a Sanctification external, and a Sanctification internal: External, is when by our Baptism, and Christian profession: We acknowledge our selves separated from the world to live unto God; but internal is when we are so indeed: How shall we call the profane, ungodly person, a sanctified one? Look to the truth of Sanctification here mentioned in the Text. Now the truth of it lieth,
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 1 Cor. 1.2. the whole Church of Corinth, though afterwards reproved for many sinfull practices, yet are called sanctified, and ⟨p. 517⟩