That you may understand the thing the better, there are two things, two kinds of righteousness; the one of justification, the other of sanctification. The Holy Ghost distinguisheth them by several terms, 1 Cor. 1.30. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. You see here are two distinct graces, righteousness and sanctification; they make them but one, sanctification and remission of sins. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified, Rom. 8.30. Here justification and glorification are nothing else but justification and sanctification. St Paul speaks of a thing past, not of the glory to come; them he glorified, not shall glorify: he means sanctification, which is inchoate glory. For what is the glory we shall have in heaven, but the enlargement of those inherent graces God begins in this world? Here is the seed, there is the crop; here thou hast a little knowledge, but there it shall be enlarged; now thou hast a little joy, there thou shalt enter into thy Master's joy; here some knowledge, but there thou shalt have a full knowledge, and a full measure. Here glory dwelleth in our Land, but there we shall with open face behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and be changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3.18. (i. e.) we are more and more conformed to the image of Almighty God, by obedience and holy qualities infused into us, that we grow from one degree of sanctification unto another. And so you see how these are distinguished by their terms. Justification and glorification, justification and sanctification. There is another place in St. John, an hard place; but yet as I take it, these two righteousnesses, that have the same name for justification and sanctification, are righteousnesses both of them, to be distinct in their terms, in that place it is said, Joh. 16.8. That when the Spirit shall come, he shall reprove; or (as we should translate it, and as you read it in the margin) he shall convince the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgment. Thus I say it should be translated, for it is of no sense to say that God should reprove the world of righteousness; on what occasion this was spoken, we must not stand to speak:
That you may understand the thing the better, there are two things, two kinds of righteousness; the one of justification, the other of sanctification. The Holy Ghost distinguisheth them by several terms, 1 Cor. 1.30. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. You see here are two distinct graces, righteousness and sanctification; they make them but one, sanctification and remission of sins. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified, Rom. 8.30. Here justification and glorification are nothing else but justification and sanctification. St Paul speaks of a thing past, not of the glory to come; them he glorified, not shall glorifie: he means sanctification, which is inchoate glory. For what is the glory we shall have in heaven, but the enlargement of those inherent graces God begins in this world? Here is the seed, there is the crop; here thou hast a little knowledge, but there it shall be enlarged; now thou hast a little joy, there thou shalt enter into thy Master's joy; here some knowledge, but there thou shalt have a full knowledge, and a full measure. Here glory dwelleth in our Land, but there we shall with open faoe behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and be changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3.18. (i. e.) we are more and more conformed to the image of Almighty God, by obedience and holy qualities infused into us, that we grow from one degree of sanctification unto another. And so you see how these are distinguished by their terms. Justification and glorification, justification and sanctification. There is another place in St. John, an hard place; but yet as I take it, these two righteousnesses, that have the same name for justification and sanctification, are righteousnesses both of them, to be distinct in their terms, in that place it is said, Joh. 16.8. That when the Spirit shall come, he shall reprove; or (as we should translate it, and as you read it in the margin) he shall convince the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgment. Thus I say it should be translated, for it is of no sense to say that God should reprove the world of righteousness; on what occasion this was spoken, we must not stand to speak:
