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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
The second thing that is required in him that is sent to 1sanctify, is this, that he subsist in sanctification. That is, that he depend not upon another for sanctification; but that he be able to sanctify of himself: Now this is the excellency of the holy Ghost; He is sanctification and holiness it self, that is subsisting in sanctification, and abounding in holiness, And therefore able to strengthen the inward man. But that you may more fully understand this point I will show you how the Spirit strengtheneth the inward man working holiness and sanctification: And this will appear in four things especially.
The second thing that is required in him that is sent to 1sanctifie, is this, that he subsist in sanctification. That is, that he depend not upon another for sanctification; but that he be able to sanctifie of himself: Now this is the excellencie of the holy Ghost; He is sanctification and holiness it self, that is subsisting in sanctification, and abounding in holiness, And therefore able to strengthen the inward man. But that you may more fully understand this point I will shew you how the Spirit strengtheneth the inward man working holines and sanctification: And this will appear in four things especially.
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The first way how the Spirit strengtheneth grace in the 1the soul, Is this, By giving unto the soul an effectual, operative, and digestive faculty, that is, by rearing the inward man in the soul, and setting up the building of grace: And this he doth by shedding abroad in the heart the blessed effects of grace into every faculty, even as the blood is in used into every vain, or as the soul goes through every part of the body, and so gives life unto it: so doth the Spirit go through all the parts of the soul by