A65285:1204
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SANCTIFICATION.
SANTIFICATION.
1 THESS. 4.3. For this is the Will of God, even your Sanctification.
The Notion of the word Sanctification, signifies to consecrate and set apart to an holy use. Thus they are sanctified Persons who are separate from the World, and set apart for God's Service. Sanctification hath a privative and positive part.
THe Notion of the word Sanctification, signifies to consecrate and set apart to an holy use. Thus they are sanctified Persons who are separate from the World, and set apart for God's Service. Sanctification hath a privative and positive part.
1. A privative part, Mortification, which lies in the purging out of sin. Sin is compared to Leaven, which sours, and to Leprosy, which defiles: Sanctification doth purge out the old leaven, 1 Cor. 5.7. Though it takes not away the life, yet the love of sin.