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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.
6. Without Sanctification we can show no sign of our Election, 2 Thes. 2.13. Election is the cause of our Salvation, Sanctification is our Evidence; Sanctification is the Ear-mark of Christ's Elect Sheep.
Quest. What are the Signs of Sanctification?
Resp. 1. Such as are sanctified can remember a time when they were unsanctified, Tit. 3.3. We were in our Blood, and then God washed us with Water, and anointed us with Oil, Ezek. 16.9. Those Trees of Righteousness that blossom and bear Almonds, can remember when they were like Aaron's dry Rod, not one Blossom of Holiness growing: A sanctified Soul can remember when he was estranged from God through' Ignorance and Vanity, and then Free-grace planted this Flower of Holiness in him.
Resp. 1. Such as are sanctified can remember a time when they were unsanctified, Tit. 3.3. We were in our Bloud, and then God wash'd us with Water, and anointed us with Oyl, Ezek. 16.9. Those Trees of Righteousness that blossom and bear Almonds, can remember when they were like Aaron's dry Rod, not one Blossom of Holiness growing: A sanctified Soul can remember when he was estranged from God thro' Ignorance and Vanity, and then Free-grace planted this Flower of Holiness in him.