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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.
Quest. Wherein appears the necessity of Sanctification?
Resp. In six things. 1. God hath called us to it; 2 Pet. 1.4. Who hath called us to glory and virtue; to Virtue as well as Glory. God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 1 Thess. 4.7. We have no call to sin; we may have a temptation, but no call; no call to be proud, or unclean, but we have a call to be holy.
Resp. In six things. 1. God hath called us to it; 2 Pet. 1.4. Who hath called us to glory and vertue; to Vertue as well as Glory. God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 1 Thess. 4.7. We have no call to sin; we may have a temptation, but no call; no call to be proud, or unclean, but we have a call to be holy.
2. The necessity appears in this, without Sanctification there is no evidencing our Justification; Justification and Sanctification go together, 1 Cor. 6.11. But ye are sanctified, but ye are justified. Mic. 7.18. Pardoning iniquity, there is Justification; ver. 19. He will subdue our iniquities, there is Sanctification. Out of Christs sides came water and blood,