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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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.
I answer. 1. The word sanctify, when applied to men, doth 1not only signify justification, or renovation, but setting apart to some peculiar office and charge: and there are Learned men ⟨p. 204⟩who take this to be the meaning of Christs prayer here; That as the Priests and Levites, who were to enter into the sanctuary, did first wash their hands and feet, being also clothed with goodly garments: so the Apostles are here prayed for by our Saviour, that they may be fitted for their great charge. And thus Chrysostom: you have a parallel place Jer. 1. 5, Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Prophet unto the Nations. And this exposition is confirmed by the manner [Greek or Hebrew] in truth (so they read it, & mention not the particle [Greek or Hebrew], which is not in some copies) so that they take it as an expression opposing the sanctification of the Priests, which was by legal types and shadows. But that which doth especially confirm this exposition, seemeth to be the two verses following, As thou hast sent me into the world, so have I also sent them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctify my self, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. Now sanctification as it comprehends justification and renovation, cannot be applied to Christ: but it must signify the segregating and setting apart himself for the office of the Mediator. Besides, if sanctification do here include justification, how, by the Antinomian principle, can our Saviour pray for the justification of those, who are already justified?
I answer. 1. The word sanctifie, when applied to men, doth 1not only signifie justification, or renovation, but setting apart to some peculiar office and charge: and there are Learned men ⟨p. 204⟩who take this to be the meaning of Christs prayer here; That as the Priests and Levites, who were to enter into the sanctuary, did first wash their hands and feet, being also cloathed with goodly garments: so the Apostles are here prayed for by our Saviour, that they may be fitted for their great charge. And thus Chrysostome: you have a parallel place