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…

our holiness hath no other primary pattern but Gods holiness,¹ so that our sanctification is not the righteousness and holiness in as it is inherent in Christ, for that is the matter of our justification, and therefore sanctification must be that holiness ⟨p. 293⟩which is derived unto us from Christ, whereby we are made like unto him; and thus Christ is made sanctification unto us, 1 Cor. 1.30. There should be no difference between Christ our righteousness and sanctification, if that holiness which is in Christ should be both unto us. Hence also Sanctification is not the immediate operation of the Spirit upon us, without created habits of grace abiding in us, as the spirit that came upon Balaam, and mightily affected him for a time, but left him as destitute of any grace or change of his nature as the Ass he rode on; No, no, it renews you unto the image of God himself, if you be truly sanctified. And therefore let all those dreams of the Familists, (denying all inherent graces, but only those which are in Christ, to be in the Saints) let them vanish and perish from under the sun, and the good Lord reduce all such who in simplicity are mis-led from this blessed truth of God. I will not now enter into that depth concerning the means of our sanctification in mortification by Christs death and vivification by the resurrection of Christ: this may suffice for explication of the nature of it.

our holinesse hath no other primary pattern but Gods holinesse,¹ so that our sanctification is not the righteousnesse and holinesse in as it is inherent in Christ, for that is the matter of our justification, and therefore sanctification must be that holinesse ⟨p. 293⟩which is derived unto us from Christ, whereby we are made like unto him; and thus Christ is made sanctification unto us, 1 Cor. 1.30. There should be no difference betweene Christ our righteousnesse and sanctification, if that holinesse which is in Christ should be both unto us. Hence also Sanctification is not the immediate operation of the Spirit upon us, without created habits of grace abiding in us, as the spirit that came upon Balaam, and mightily affected him for a time, but left him as destitute of any grace or change of his nature as the Asse he rode on; No, no, it renewes you unto the image of God himselfe, if you be truly sanctified. And therefore let all those dreames of the Familists, (denying all inherent graces, but onely those which are in Christ, to be in the Saints) let them vanish and perish from under the sunne, and the good Lord reduce all such who in simplicity are mis-led from this blessed truth of God. I will not now enter into that depth concerning the means of our sanctification in mortification by Christs death and vivification by the resurrection of Christ: this may suffice for explication of the nature of it.