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| Chapter 13 - Of Sanctification |
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1. They who are united to Christ,
effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit
created in them through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection,
are also farther sanctified, really and personally, through the same virtue,
by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them; the dominion of the whole body
of sin is destroyed, and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakened
and mortified, and they more and more quickened and strengthened in all
saving graces, to the practice of all true holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord.
Acts 20:32; Romans 6:5, 6; John 17:17;
Ephesians 3:16-19; 1 Thessalonians 5:21-23; Romans 6:14; Galatians 5:24;
Colossians 1:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Hebrews 12:14 )
2. This sanctification is throughout
the whole man, yet imperfect in this life; there abideth still some remnants
of corruption in every part, whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable
war; the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
1 Thessalonians 5:23; Romans 7:18,
23; Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11
3. In which war, although the
remaining corruption for a time may much prevail, yet through the continual
supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate
part doth overcome; and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness
in the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical obedience
to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in His Word hath prescribed
them.
Romans 7:23; Romans 6:14; Ephesians
4:15, 16; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 7:1 |