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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.
2. It's true Sanctification, when it hath the universality and integrity of all parts, which is the whole Image of God, as Paul prayeth, 1 Thess. 5. I pray God ye be sanctified throughout in spirit, soul and body. This work of Sanctification, it's an entire, complete, harmonical compages of all holiness, take any part of it away, and you dissolve the whole fabric. It's true, Sanctification though it have not perfect and complete degrees, but not true, if it want any essential parts, and therefore called the Image of God, which cannot be one grace, no more then a man can be a man in one part, and a beast in another, but the System of all.
2. It's true Sanctification, when it hath the universality and integrity of all parts, which is the whole Image of God, as Paul prayeth, 1 Thess. 5. I pray God ye be sanctified throughout in spirit, soul and body. This work of Sanctification, it's an entire, compleat, harmonical compages of all holinesse, take any part of it away, and you dissolve the whole fabrick. It's true, Sanctification though it have not perfect and compleat degrees, but not true, if it want any essential parts, and therefore called the Image of God, which cannot be one grace, no more then a man can be a man in one part, and a beast in another, but the Systeme of all.
3. It's true Sanctification in the permanency and continuance of it. Perseverance doth not make Sanctification to be true, but the truth of Sanctification makes it persevere: Perseverance is an effect, not a cause of true Sanctification, as the Apostle speaks, 1 John 2.19. They went from us, because they were not of us; As leaves fall from the Tree, when they have no more of their wonted nourishment; and this discovers the falsehood of those who appear sanctified only in some fits, and upon some sad afflictions on them.