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Hpbefians,
Chap.
5.
V
E
R.26,
forthe
right
underftanding
of
it
you
muff
not, when you
heare
that
Ged
is
our Sanctification, underhand it
as
when
it
is
Paid,
God
is
our
life,
for we
live
in
him; but fo that
it
is
by
mease
of
crea-
tures
in
which
he bath put fuch
a
force
:
fo
thatthough God
be the
efficient
and more removed
,
yet the next
formal" caute
which
maintaineth
life,
is
the
virtue
in
the creature
:
But
God
fo
doth
fan
difie
us,
that
intirely
and
immediately himfelfe doth worke it,
not
giving
cfficacie
to
any
creature
to bring forth
this worke
of
our San
¿lification.
The
Life
of
it
is
that
we fhould
learn
to
!cane
upon
Chrift
as
the
Author
and
finifher
of
this worke; which
will be
a
Pure
pillar ro
truff
to,
for
his
ftrength
is
only
able to leade
us
through
all
the
enmities
that
are
oppofed;
Deut.
3
t.
Be
not
deli-waged,for
I
amwith
you.
The
fecond thing is,
That
though the
Lord
doth
intirely, and
immedi-
ately
work
this,
yet
he
dash ufe
means, the
mean
of
Baptifine.
Of
which
three things
:
r.
What
it is, an
inftrument to work
in
us.
2.
How
it
doth
work.
3.
The
ufes.
r.
It
Both
finis
ferve
in
generali to
feale
the wholecovenant of
God,
which
is
faid
of
circumcifion and
the cup,This
is
my covenant
in
my
blood
:
but more
fpecially
it
doth worke
to
our
Union
with
Chrift,
Gal.
3.27.
and our communion
in
the
benefits
of
remiffion
of
firne,
l
íl.
21.17. 20.
Rom.
6.
Col.
2.
12..
Tit.
3. regeneration
or the
fan-
¿ifyingof
us.
a.
N_'winthe
fecond place,
to
conceive
how
our Baptifine
doth
fandifie, we
muff
know there
is
an
error
on
both
fides.
Some
faying
that God doth
by
his
motion
give force
to
the
Minifteriall
anion
to
cleanfe
the
foule,
that though God
is
the
principal(
worker,
yet the
Minifteriall action
through
him
doth immediatelybring forth our
fan-
dification.
So
that
our fandification fhould come neither immediately
nor intirely from
God.
Some
fay
that God doth
all
intirely, but they
dofotie
his
pretence
to the water, that where the
Miniffers
anion
is,
there God
is
allo
and at
that time,
unleffe
in
parties
of
ripe yeares, un-
beliefe
hinder. Others
fay
they
are naked pictures
and badges
of
pro-
feflion
in
thefe three conclufions.
Concluf.
r.
r.
God doth
alone
wholly and immediately from himfelf
caufe
the
work
of
our
fandification, though
he ufe
water, yet
he
doth
not give
any quality
to
it,
nor
lift
by
any
motion
of
his
power the water to
effed our inward fandification;
Circumcilonis
nothing,
Gal. 5.
And
left
the Papifts
fhould fay,
that
Scripture
doth not
fpeak fo
of
Baprifm,
theApoftle
faith
that
all
the Miniflery
of
man
is
nothing,
r
Cor.3.7.
in
regard
of
power to work
in
the
foule; and
r
Pet.3. 27. the Apoftle
faith
that
the outward
Baptifine
doth not
fave. Such
like places teach
that the Lord doth
fo ufe
thefe things,
that
yet
all
virtue
and efficacy
is
in
him,
and
goeth immediately
from him
:
For
when fandification
is
greater then
Creation,
no creature
can
be admitted to that
fellow-
thin