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THE
THIRD
BOOKS,
INTREATING
OF
SANCTIFICA
--
TION
AND
PERSEVERANCE,
AS
alit of
Satans
temptationswhich
he
fugge-
fieth
againfi them
both,
and
of
fuch
anfwers
wherewith the
Chri-
flian may refute and
re-
pell
them.
CHAP.
I.
Of
Sanílification,and the
caufes
thereof.
Nd
fo
much for the anfwering
of
fuch
§.Sea.r.
temptations
of
Satan
as
concerne
our iu-
that
God
is
the
flification.
Now
we
are
to
fpeake
of
our
pri»cipall
efft-
fan&ification,
which
is
the next
effe&
of
cient
,,four
Gods
ele6ion,
and infeparably ioyned
fanti:frcatiott.
with our
iufiification
:
wherein
I
will
obferue' my former
order,
firfi
letting
downe the
doarine
of
fantification,
and then anfwering
thofe temptations
of
Satan
which
doe
moil impugne
it.
For the
firti,
SanEifacation
is
an
atiion
of
the
whole
T'rinitie,
sand;
frcation
whereby
the
beleeuer
alreadieiuftified,is
by
little
andlittle
renued
vvhat it
is
according
to
Gods image
in
holineffe
and
righteoufnfffe,
by
the
mortification
of
the
flea,
with the corruptions thereof,
and
the
quickening
of
the
fpirit.
And this
is
our
f
.naification,
which
is
expreffed in
the
Scriptures
by
diners manes
at
d
phrafes
;for
it
is
called
rege-
neration,the
new birLh,renouation,thc
purling
off
or
morti-
QN
Eying
ä