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Several questions of serious and necessary consequence, propoundedSeverall questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded
Several questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded by the teaching elders, unto M. John Cotton of Boston in New-England. With his respective answer to each question.Severall questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded by the teaching elders, unto M. Iohn Cotton of Boston in New-England. With his respective answer to each question.
London: printed for Thomas Banks, 1647
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.
What you mean by Christian sanctification, whether immediate acting of the Spirit, or infused Habits: If habits infused, whether such as are contrary to corrupt Nature, and all vicious Habits: and if so, whether you must not mean the Image of God in Adam renewed in us, to be our sanctification?
VVhat you meane by Christian sanctification, whether immediate acting of the Spirit, or infused Habits: If habits infused, whether such as are contrary to corrupt Nature, and all vitious Habits: and if so, whether you must not mean the Image of God in Adam renewed in us, to be our sanctification?
Answ.
I mean by Christian sanctification, the fruit of the Spirit of ⟨p. 4⟩Christ dwelling in true Believers, working and acting in us, both infused Habits and actions of Holiness, contrary to all vicious Habits and actions of corrupt Nature. And yet I do not mean, that the Image of God in Adam renewed in us (and no more then so) is our sanctification: our sanctification in Christ hath in it this more; Faith in the Righteousness of Christ, and Repentance from dead Works, (and that which is the root of all) the indwelling power of the Spirit, to act and keep Holiness in us all, which Adam wanted.
I meane by Christian sanctification, the fruit of the Spirit of ⟨p. 4⟩Christ dwelling in true Beleevers, working and acting in us, both infused Habits and actions of Holinesse, contrary to all vitious Habits and actions of corrupt Nature. And yet I do not mean, that the Image of God in Adam renewed in us (and no more then so) is our sanctification: our sanctification in Christ hath in it this more; Faith in the Righteousnesse of Christ, and Repentance from dead Works, (and that which is the root of all) the indwelling power of the Spirit, to act and keep Holinesse in us all, which Adam wanted.