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…

3. It is a renewal unto the Image of God, or of God in Christ; an unsanctified man may be after a sort renewed in the whole man, his outward conversation may be fair, his mind may be enlightened, his heart may taste of the heavenly gift, &c Heb. 6.4, 5. he may have a form of godliness, 2 Tim. 3.5. he may have strong resolutions within him unto godliness, Deut. 5.29. and hence with the five foolish Virgins may be received into the fellowship of the wise, and not discerned of them neither, till the gate is shut; but they are never renewed in their whole man after the Image of God: i. they do not know things, and judge of them as God doth, they do not love and will holiness and the means thereto, as God doth; they hate not sin, as God doth; they do not delight in the whole Law of God, it is not writ in their hearts, and hence they love it not as God doth: and this is the cut of the thread between a sanctified and unsanctified Spirit; by sanctification a man is renewed ⟨p. 292⟩unto Gods Image, once lost, but here again restored; Eph. 4.24. John 1.16. we receive from Christ grace for grace, as the seal on the wax hath tittle for tittle, to that in the seal it self, we are changed into the same Image of Christ by beholding him, in the gloss of the Gospel, by Faith; 2 Cor. 3.18. I delight in the Law of God in my inward man, Rom. 7.23. and hence a Christian by the life of sanctification, lives like unto God; at least hath a holy disposition and inclination (the habits of holiness) so to do; Gal. 2.19. I live unto God, he calleth us from darkness into his marvellous light, that we might show forth his virtues; and that this is true sanctification, may thus appear; because our sanctification is opposed to our original corruption, as our justification to our original and contracted guilt of sin: now as original corruption is the defacing of Gods Image by contrary dispositions to sinfulness, so our sanctification can be nothing else but the removal of this pollution, by the contrary habits and dispositions to be like unto God again: our sanctification is to be holy,