to the E P H ES I AN S. 211 no other Sanctification? ~ouldyou.havefor your Child, fuppofe you believe~ him to be Elect, or had an tmmedtate, m&lhble Warrant fo to t!nnk, no otherSan· ~ ctification or Juflification than he bath then; No, you would have him fanl.tified with Chrif1, and juflified with Chr!ft, which is to have tHat wllich he had in Cbi·if1; applyed to him ; and he put actually in his own Perfon, in the !late of it. The want ofthe conlideration ofthefe things, caufeth a great miflake in this Age. Yoti !hall find, thatflill the Scripture, ufeth that Phrafe, ofthofe thin~s; which ~en'<it only have in Chrif1, but have fome actual polfeffing ofthemjin our own P~rf<~ns, I yield, it is attained in Chrifl a~ in a common Perfon, but it mufl be applyed to our own Perfons alfo; for would any Man defire, to be no more glorified than he is now? yet we are perfealy glorified in Cbrifl now, fo we were perfealy juflified in Chrifl, when he rofe, and-perfectly ju!l:ified from all Eternity ; who !hall con~ demn the Elel.t ofGod ? faith the Apo!lle :Yet thefe mull be applyed to our owri Perfons, and our Perfons mull actually be put into this Condition. When we come to Heaven, then he faith, we !hall fit with Chri!l in his Throne, Rev. 3· but·while we are here on Earth, then it is fitting in Chrifl. The Confideration of this Di!linl.tion, would in a Word clear the great Comroverfy, that is now between the .Antinomians (as they call them) and others, about being juflified before Converfion, whether a Man be ju!lified before Converfion or no ? or whe" ther·he be not fo juflified afterward, as in fome fence he was not before? I fay, we are juflified in Chrifl from all Eternity, and we are juflified with Chrifl, when we believe. SERM..
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