Vindiciæ legis

I answer, 1. The word sanctify, when applied to men, doth Answer. 1 not only signify justification, or renovation, but setting a part to some peculiar office and charge: and there are Learned men who take this to be the meaning of Christs prayer here; That as the Priests and Levites, who were to enter into the sanctuary, did first wash their hands and feet, being also clothed with goodly garments: so the Apostles are here prayed for by our Saviour, that they may be fitted for their great charge. And thus Chrysostom, you have a parallel place Jer. 1. 5. Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Prophet unto the Nations. And this exposition is confirmed by the manner [Greek or Hebrew] in truth (so they read it, and mention not the particle [Greek or Hebrew], which is not in some copies) so that they take it as an expression opposing the sanctification of the Priests, which was by legal types and shadows. But that which doth especially confirm this exposition, seemeth to be the two verses following, As thou hast sent me into the world, so have I also sent them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctify my self, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. Now sanctification, as it comprehends justification and renovation, cannot be applied to Christ: but it must signify the segregating and setting apart himself for the office of the Mediator. Besides, if sanctification do here include justification, how, by the Antinomian principle, can our Saviour pray for the justification of those, who are already justified?

I answer, 1. The word sanctifie, when applied to men, doth Answer. 1 not onely signifie justification, or renovation, but setting a part to some peculiar office and charge: and there are Learned men who take this to be the meaning of Christs prayer here; That as the Priests and Levites, who were to enter into the sanctuary, did first wash their hands and feet, being also cloathed with goodly garments: so the Apostles are here prayed for by our Saviour, that they may be fitted for their great charge. And thus Chrysostome, you have a parallel place Jer. 1. 5. Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Prophet unto the Nations. And this exposition is confirmed by the manner 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in truth (so they reade it, and mention not the particle , which is not in some copies) so that they take it as an expression opposing the sanctification of the Priests, which was by legall types and shadowes. But that which doth especially confirme this exposition, seemeth to be the two verses following, As thou hast sent mee into the world, so have I also sent them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctifie my selfe, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. Now sanctification, as it comprehends justification and renovation, cannot be applied to Christ: but it must signifie the segregating and setting apart himselfe for the office of the Mediatour. Besides, if sanctification doe here include justification, how, by the Antinomian principle, can our Saviour pray for the justification of those, who are already justified?