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with regeneration, i John iii. 9. wherein the Spirit of Christ comes into the man's heart with his graces, and takes poffeffion of him for God. The whole foul is cast into a new mould and frame, and the image of God is drawn anew upon it.

2. Progreffive fanctification, whereby that change is carried on more and more, the Spirit holding hand to the begun work, Acts xx. 32. Satan's image is more defaced, and the image of God more perfected in the foul; corruption more weakened, and grace more excited and strengthened. This work lasts through the faint's whole life, and is never perfected till death.

These are one and the fame work for substance, though differing in circumstances; and no man has the one, but he has the other too. Initial fanctification goes before justification in the order of nature, as being the principle from which faith doth arife; and this accounts for the apostle's order in the text: but progressive fanctification, i. e. fanctification diftinguish. ed from regeneration, follows juftification.

SECONDLY, Let us confider the Author of fanctification, whose work it is.

1. Negatively, It is not the finner himself, nor any other creature, who is the author of it. We can well defile ourselves with all impurity, but cannot cleanfe ourselves. We will lie still in our filthiness, till help come from another quarter, Eph. ii. 1. We are bid to cleanse our hands and hearts: but alas! the rule of our duty is not the measure of our strength.

2. Positively, It is the work of God; for it needs no less power than was neceffary for creating a world, or raifing the dead. It is the work of a whole Trinity to fanctify a foul, as lightly as many think of being holy. It is the work of the Father, Jude ver. i.Sanctified by God the Father; of the Son, Eph. v. 26.

That he (Chrift) might fanctify-it; of the Holy Spirit, 2 Theff. ii. 13. - through fanctification of the

Spirit. But in a special manner it belongs to the Spirit: as the Father elects, the Son redeems, and the Holy Ghost sanctifies. It is the work of the Spirit of God then.

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1. In initial fanctification the Spirit acts alone, and the poor finner is wholly passive, and can do nothing that way. For he is dead in sin, and cannot move out of its dominion. He lies in the grave like the dry bones, which cannot live, nor stand up till they be breathed upon by the Lord himself.

2. In progressive fanctification, though the finner does act towards his own fanctification, 2 Cor, vii. 1. yet he acts not, but as he is acted by the Holy Spirit, Phil, ii. 13. In vain will he spread out his fails, if the wind from heaven blow not, Cant. iv. 16. No blow of his struck in the battle against lufts will do execution, if the Spirit do not carry it home.

THIRDLY, The moving cause of it. Sanctification is a great benefit: whom the Lord bettows it upon, he puts an honour on, for they are fet apart for himself. There is an intrinfic glory in holiness, Pfal. xlv. 13. The King's daughter is all glorious within. God is gloricus in it, and therefore no wonder it be the glory of the creature. When the Lord makes one holy, he does more for him than if he would give him all the gold of the Indies, or make him fole monarch of the world, Nay, the gift of fanctification is more worth than the Spirit of prophecy, or the faith of miracles: for men may be ruined notwithstanding of these, but not if they have this,

The only cause of it is free grace, not any personal worth in the creature, Tit. iii. 5. As the fun thines without hire, and enlightens the dark world; fo does the Holy Spirit fanctify the unholy finner freely, without any thing in him to move him thereto, Matth, xi. 25. 26. For,

1. There is nothing in an unholy finner that is pleafing and acceptable in God's fight, Rom. viii. 8, There is nothing but stench and rottenness in the dead

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foul, till the sanctifying Spirit enter into him. His best dispositions, actions, and performances are fin, being without faith, and the mere product of nature unrenewed.

2. Though there be a great difference betwixt natural men before the world, one having by far the advan. tage of the other, in respect of their natural tempers and the way of their life; yet the Lord does not give his fanctifying grace according to these advantages, but oftimes grace takes hold of those who are most unlikely to get it, 1 Cor. i. 26. 27. &c. Publicans and harlots enter into the kingdom of God before scribes and Pharisees. And oftimes sovereign grace overlooks those of the most sweet natural dispositions, and brings in those of the most rugged.

3. Sovereign grace often chuses the time for fanctifying the finner, when he has gone the farthest length in fin and wickedness. Paul was carried the length of blafphemy and perfecution ere sanctifying grace took hold of him, I Tim. i. 13. And Manasseh was carried to horrid murders and witchcraft, ere he was prevented by divine grace. Many have been carried to extraordinary acts of wickedness, whereby they have loft their lives in the course of justice, whom grace has plucked as brands out of the burning, to proclaim the freedom of grace.

FOURTHLY, I thall shew wherein sanctifica: tion confifts, or what the Spirit doth to a finner when he fanctifies him. It confists in the renewing of the finner after the image of God, Eph. iv. 23. 24. The ruin of man's nature lay in defacing of the image of God which was upon him: sanctification is the renewing and repairing of it, without which God can take no delight in his creature. Now, in all renewing, the old is put away, and the new brought in. So there are two acts of the Spirit in fanctification.

1. Destroying of the body of fin, called the old man, Rom. vi. 6. putting it away, Col. ii. II. The Spirit of the Lord breaks the dominion of fin in the

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foul, and turns it off the throne, that it cannot command the sinner as aforetime, Rom vi. 14. weakens and mortifies the several lufts thereof, Rom. viii. 13. So that it is a crucified man, who has got his death's wounds by the nails, and shall not come down till he die out.

2. Endowing the finner with grace, even with all the graces of the Spirit, John i. 16. whereby the finner becomes a new creature, 2 Cor. v. 17. This is the new man which is put on in sanctification; the feed of heaven, which can never misgive, but will spring up to everlasting life, being carried on towards perfection, by the fame Spirit.

FIFTHLY, The parts of fanctification are two,

1. Mortification, whereby the finner is enabled more and more to die unto fin, Rom, vi. 4. 6. The Spirit applying the virtue of Chrift's death to the finner, mortifies him to fin, blunts the edge of his affection to fin and finful courses, so that in respect of fin he is like a dying man. So that although he be not quite freed from it, yet he is on the way to be 10. His lufts are upon the cross, nailed through and pierced to the heart, not to come down till they have breathed out their last, Gal, v. 24. Like a dying man taking leave of friends, he is parting with his old lufts: like a man leaving off cares about the world, the bent of his foul is turned away from his former courses,

2. Vivification, whereby the finner is enabled more and more to live unto righteousness, Rom. vi. 4. The fanctified finner leads a new life, in respect of which he is as a man raised from the dead, not meddling as before in the business of the world: so the fanctified finner lives as one of another world, not conforming himself to the finful courses of this world, but being transformed into a likeness to those of the better world, Rom, xii. 2. Phil. iii. 20. The business of his life is to serve the Lord, and work out his own falvation; to be preparing for the eternal rest in heaver, whither Lis heart is carried before him.

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SIXTHLY, Let us view the subject of sanctifi cation. Under which confider,

1. Who are fanctified. 2. What of them is sanctified. First, Who are sanctified. It is the elect who are sanctified, even all of them, and they only, Eph i. 4. 2 Theff. ii. 13. And elect infants among the rest, dy. ing in infancy, being naturally corrupted, must needs be fanctified too, by the Holy Spirit, since they are of the number of the elect. For others may be sanctified from the womb, Jer. i. 5. And none other but the elect do partake of this grace of fanctification: fo that fanctification is a certain evidence of election.

Secondly, What of them is fanctified. The whole man is fanctified, 2 Cor. v. 17. 1 Theff. v. 23. The grace of fanctification is a holy leaven, that goes thro' the whole lump, and makes every part of the man holy.

1. The foul is fanctified in all the faculties thereof, new qualities being infused into and advanced in them. (1.) The understanding naturally darkened, is renewed in saving knowledge after God's image, Col. iii. 10. A new light is ftruck out in the mind; the light of grace arites there, whereby the foul knows spiritual things in another manner than before; and this advanceth unto the perfect day, Prov. iv. 18. (2.) The will, naturally perverse and rebellious, gets a righteous fet and bent, agreeable to the will of God, Eph, ii. 24. whereby it is averse to evil, and prone to good. (3.) The unholy affections are made holy, ibid, So that their love, hatred, delight, forrows, &c. are changed. And herewith comes along the sanctification of the confcience and memory.

2. The body is sanctified, in fo far as it is made the temple of the Holy Spirit, and a member of Chrift, 1 Cor. vi. 15. 19. And the members thereof are changed in respect of their use, becoming instruments of righteoufness employed for the Lord, Rom. vi. 13. In respect of which the body is presented a holy facrt

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