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…

This is the fourth benefit which follows in order of nature, our justification, reconciliation, and adoption, for upon our being Sons in Adoption, we receive the image of our heavenly Father in Sanctification; because we are under grace. Hence it comes to pass that we are freed from the reigning power of sin, Rom. 6.14. so that our Sanctification follows our Justification, and Adoption goes not before it. In justification, we have the love and righteousness of the Son; in reconciliation, the love of the Father; in Adoption, the love of a Father and presence of the Spirit assisting, witnessing; in Sanctification, the image of our Father by the same spirit: and this I conceive with submission is the seal of the Spirit mentioned, Eph. 1.13. the seal sealing, is the Spirit it self; the seal sealed, consists first in the expression ⟨p. 289⟩of it in Adoption, Secondly, in the impression of it in Sanctification, and that he only shall pass as currant coin, that hath both these; I know the most full and clear expression and testimony of the Spirit is after all Gods work is finished in glorification, but the beginning of it is here in Adoption, a fuller measure of it in Sanctification; Gods seal is ever set to some promise (as mens seals to some bond, not to blanks) the Lords promise of actual justification, and reconciliation, pertains only to men sanctified or called: in Adoption therefore we receive the Spirit, which looks both ways; testifying either thou sanctified, art justified, or thou called, art justified and reconciled.

This is the fourth benefit which followes in order of nature, our justification, reconciliation, and adoption, for upon our being Sonnes in Adoption, we receive the image of our heavenly Father in Sanctification; because we are under grace. Hence it comes to passe that we are freed from the raigning power of sin, Rom. 6.14. so that our Sanctification followes our Justification, and Adoption goes not before it. In justification, we have the love and righteousnesse of the Son; in reconciliation, the love of the Father; in Adoption, the love of a Father and presence of the Spirit assisting, witnessing; in Sanctification, the image of our Father by the same spirit: and this I conceive with submission is the seale of the Spirit mentioned,