A44348:223
An exposition of the principles of religion by Tho. Hooker.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
Q. Must justification be joined to sanctification?
Q. Must justification be joyned to sanctification?
A. Yes, for justification goeth, ⟨p. 24⟩before, and sanctification follows after.
A. Yes, for justification goeth, ⟨p. 24⟩before, and sanctification followes after.
Q. Wherein lieth the difference?
Q. Wherein lyeth the difference?
A. Justification putteth nothing into a man, nor findeth any thing in a man: Sanctification puts a new frame of heart into us.
A. Iustification putteth nothing into a man, nor findeth any thing in a man: Sanctification puts a new frame of heart into us.
Q. But doth not God put grace into a justified sinner?
A. Yes, but he doth it by sanctification, not by justification. We receive justification all at once, and that neither admits of increase, or decrease, but holiness is usually increased, and decreaseth many times.
A. Yes, but he doth it by sanctification, not by justification. We receive justification all at once, and that neither admits of increase, or decrease, but holinesse is usually increased, and decreaseth many times.
Q. What is sanctification?
A. Its the restoring of a justified man into the image of God wherein he was created: Not a making new faculties in the soul, but putting them into right order; as when a clock falls in pieces (the wheels being not broken) the clock hath not new wheels set into it, but they are new made again.
A. Its the restoring of a justified man into the image of God wherein he was created: Not a making new faculties in the soule, but putting them into right order; as when a clock falls in pieces (the wheels being not broken) the clock hath not new wheeles set into it, but they are new made againe.
Q. How many things be there in sanctification?
A. Two: Mortification and Vivification.
