The Promlfe of Sanl1Jficatiofi. t 55 ti_on, as appears by comparing the toth and 12th ver . This matter is ~lfo evident from the nature of the · .. thing: for, the great thing Satan <thn'd a~, in feducing our firfi parents, was the ruin of the image of God in them, that fo mankind might be no more like God, but like himfelf: and the myHery ofGod, for the re· covery of finners; is then finiihed, when holinefs is brbught in them to pe.rfeB:ion in heaven, ai)d not til.I then. From all which, one may plainly perceive·, that the fanctification of all that .(ha!J fee heaven, is fecm'd in the covemmt, upon infallible grounds, beyond a'Jl pof· fibility bf failure ; and that the unholy have no f:1ving part nor lot in the covenant ; and that ' the lefs h'oly any man is, the lefS i~ the co.venant· promife a~com- . plilhed to him. For the fanftification offinners is the great d~fign of~hat contrivance: 'tis that which the Father and the Son, looking therein to them, . had chiefly in their view : and the promife thereof is the capital promife of the covenant, refpecting them; be- · ing, as it were, written in great letters. Now, at the time appointed for every- one, in thee– ternal council, this promife is accomplifh,d. The fin- . ner being jufiified by faith,. and taken into a h'lving re• lation to Cod, being reconcil'd, adopted, and made an heir, ofGod, through Chrifi, is fanctified. The bar being removed, the gulf filled up as to him, his fav– ing interefi io, ~nd felation to, a holy ·God, being e– fiablifhed; the communication, between heaven and the finner, is opened, and fanctifying ,influences flow . amain, to the fanctif),ing of him throughout. . / . This is, ~y fome divines called thcftcond regener• - ation, agreeable to the Scripture, Tit. Hi. 5· ·ne [avetJ us by the wajhing ofregeneration, and rene-wing ofth~ holy Ghofl; compared with Eph. v. 1.6. T:hrzt he might /anClify and cleanfe it with the wafhing oftvater., 2 , Cor. v. 17. If any man be it1 Chrijl, he is a new crea- · ture ;' namely 1 being created in Chrifl Je[us untogo?-d 'l.vorh~
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