The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

The first is taken away in that which we call the spirit of sanctification, after faith; the second is taken away not only in the act of it, (as by terrors it may be in reprobates, ⟨p. 101⟩Psal. 66.2.) but in some measure in the inward •oot and disposition of it, (only in the elect) there being (as hath been said) no more separation from sin, at this time required, then so much as may make the soul come to the Lord to take it away, or at least not unwilling, nor resisting the Lord, when he comes to do it himself.

The first is taken away in that which we call the spirit of sanctification, after faith; the second is taken away not onely in the act of it, (as by terrours it may be in reprobates, ⟨p. 101⟩Psal. 66.2.) but in some measure in the inward •oot and disposition of it, (onely in the elect) there being (as hath been said) no more separation from sinne, at this time required, then so much as may make the soule come to the Lord to take it away, or at least not unwilling, nor resisting the Lord, when he comes to doe it himselfe.

Whether doth not the work of union unto Christ,¹ go before our communion with Christ? I suppose tis undeniable, that union must be before communion; and that union to Christ is a work of grace as peculiar to the elect, as communion with him. Now justification and sanctification are two parts of our communion with him, and follow our union, Rom. 8.1