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Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II.…
Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth Commandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the moral law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth COmmandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the morall law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...
London: printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, 1650
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Thesis 96.
They that are in Christ are said to be complete in Christ,§96 Col. 2.10. and that they receive all grace from his fullness, Job. 1.16. so that is seems that there is no grace in ⟨p. 80⟩themselves, but it is first in him, and consequently that their sanctification is perfected in him: but we must know that though the perfection and fullness of all grace is first in Christ, yet that believers have not all in him after one and the same manner, nor for the same end: for our righteousness to our justification is so in him as never to be inherent in us, in this or in the world to come, but our righteousness to our sanctification is so far in him, as that it is to be derived and conveyed unto us, and hence it is formally in our selves, but meritoriously and virtually only in him: even as our resurrection and glorification at last day, are not so in Christ as never to be derived to us (for then the resurrection were past already) but they are so in him as that they are to be conveyed to us, and therefore they are meritoriously and virtually in him, and we are meritoriously and virtually risen in him: a Christian therefore may be complete in Christ, and yet not be perfectly formally sanctified in Christ, our sanctification being completed in him after another manner, and for other ends than our justification.
They that are in Christ are said to be compleat in Christ,§96 Col. 2.10