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Secondly, He sanctifies and blesses External Helps and Means. I shall instance in two, Ordinances, and Providences.

(1.) Ordinances, such as the Word and Sacraments, Joh. 17. 19. I sanctified my self, that they might be sanctified by the Truth, that is the preaching of the Word. He gave himself for his Church, that he might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of Water through the Word. Mark these and other places of Scripture, and you will find the Merit of Christ doth reach the Ordinances, that by them Grace may be conveyed, and Sin might be mortified and subdued in us. The Word calls us to excite our Resolutions against Sin, and strengthen them, to avoid Occasions, to cut off the Provisions of the Flesh, to make it our daily Task to war and strive against it. And none conscientiously wait upon the Word, but something by every attendance is given out for the weakening of Sin, and setting them afresh against it. And then the Sacrament, that represents the Death of Christ as the Price of our dying to Sin; and it represents him as the Pattern, according to which we must be conformed, that we ⟨p. 60⟩may know that our old Man is crucified, and that we may renew our Covenant with God, and our Resolutions, and bind our selves to more serious Endeavours against Sin. The Lord Jesus, after he had procured the Spirit, and this wonderful Grace to turn us from our Sins, hath appointed congruous and and fit Ordinances, whereby he may dispense this Grace to us more and more. And as he sanctifies Ordinances, so

(1.) Ordinances, such as the Word and Sacraments, Ioh. 17. 19. I sanctified my self, that they might be sanctified by the Truth, that is the preaching of the Word. He gave himself for his Church, that he might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of Water through the Word. Mark these and other places of Scripture, and you will find the Merit of Christ doth reach the Ordinances, that by them Grace may be conveyed, and Sin might be mortified and subdued in us. The Word calls us to excite our Resolutions against Sin, and strengthen them, to avoid Occasions, to cut off the Provisions of the Flesh, to make it our daily Task to war and strive against it. And none conscienciously wait upon the Word, but something by every attendance is given out for the weakning of Sin, and setting them afresh against it. And then the Sacrament, that represents the Death of Christ as the Price of our dying to Sin; and it represents him as the Pattern, according to which we must be conformed, that we