Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Showeth that Sanctification is only IN Christ.

Sheweth that Sanctification is only IN Christ.

Secondly, That this sanctification it is in Christ, all the sanctification of a Christian it is in Christ, there are some common gifts that God gives unto other men, there are gifts of nature, & there are gifts of common grace, gifts of the spirit of God that are beyond the gifts of nature, & yet they are such as are given in a common way to those that are strangers to Christ. The heathen had many common gifts, and so others now may have many common gifts, but sanctification is the proper gift of Christ, it is only to be had in Christ. Al the strength of nature, natural abilities, education, morality, natural parts, can never raise the heart to the least degree of sanctification, I mean, of the sanctification that is saving. In a large ⟨p. 298⟩sense it may be called a sanctification, as the scripture sometime doth, a setting some kind of men apart for such ends: but sanctification that is true holiness, that is the image of God, and the beginning of glory, that is only in Christ, and all the strength of nature, and parts, can never raise the soul unto the least degree of it.

SEcondly, That this sanctification it is in Christ, al the sanctification of a Christian it is in Christ, there are some common gifts that God gives unto other men, there are gifts of nature, & there are gifts of common grace, gifts of the spirit of God that are beyond the gifts of nature, & yet they are such as are given in a common way to those that are strangers to Christ. The heathen had many cōmon gifts, and so others now may have many common gifts, but sanctification is the proper gift of Christ, it is only to be had in Christ. Al the strength of nature, natural abilities, education, morality, natural parts, can never raise the heart to the least degree of sanctification, I mean, of the sanctification that is saving. In a large ⟨p. 298⟩