.'-t sS - - -The Promifo . , . in Chrifi Jeft:is tinto good works.' And faith is the i:n~ , ilrumenta] caufe of our fancrification, feeing we are fi:mt1ifted by faith. Acts xxvL 18. For thereby it is that ofhis fulne(s "were&ive grace· for grace, (]oh~ j. 16.) the which)s communicate to us by his Spirit, who glorifies him, by reforming us after his image, by n1eans of that communication of grace from Chri!l: unto us, John xvi. 14. ' He fuall glorify me ; .for he fi1aH receive ofmine/ and lhall iliew it untq you. So _beholding as in a gla~ the glory of the Lord, (Chrifl) we are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,' 2 Cor. iii. 18. Thus one being in Chr'ifi i~ made a new creat~re; forafmuch as he is fuch a S~ock, as changes the graft into its own nature. ' Therefore if any man be in Chrifi he is a new creature,' chap. v. 17. ' For as ma– ' ny of you as have been baptized into Chrifi, have · ' put on Chrifi,' GaL iii. 2 7~ It dependeth alfo upon our jufiification, and reconciliation with God ; inaf– much as the blood of Chrifi, with which we are fa ne" tified according to the Scriptures, Rev. i. 5· I Pet. i. 2. 1 John i. 7· is effecrive of our fancrifieation, as !t i~ the meritorious caufe thereof: and fo the flmetifying virtue of that precious blood, proceeds fi·om its aton ~ ing virtue ; it f.·mctifies us; becaute ; it jufiifies and re– conciles us to God, Heb~ ix. 14. 'How much more fhall the blood of Chrifi, who through the eternal Spirit offer,ed himfelfwithont fpot to God, purge your confcience from dead works, to ferve the living God?' Wherefore faith the Apofile, rTheff.v.23·' And the very God ofpeace fancHfy you.' In like manner, it prefuppofeth ·our adoption; inafmuch as it is upon our being adopted into th'e family ofGod, that we ree,eive the Spirit of his Son, conforming us to bi:s image ns our elder Brother, which is the very thing where– in our f:1ncrifica.tion doth confiil : ' For whoni he did foreknow, he alfo did predefiinate, to be con• formed ,~o t,he image of his Son that he rnigl 1 1t , Je
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