Chapter 13
Of Sanctification
- They who are united to Christ,
effectually called, and regenerated,
having a new heart and a new spirit
created in them, through the virtue of
Christ's death and resurrection; are also
further sanctified, really and
personally,1 through
the same virtue, by His Word and Spirit
dwelling in them;2 the
dominion of the whole body of sin is
destroyed,3 and the
several lusts thereof, are more and more
weakened and mortified;4 and they more and more
quickened, and strengthened in all saving
graces,5 to the
practice of all true holiness, without
which no man shall see the
Lord.6
- This sanctification is throughout in
the whole man,7 yet
imperfect in this life; there abideth
still some remnants of corruption in
every part,8 whence
ariseth a continual and irreconcilable
war; the flesh lusting against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh.9
- In which war, although the remaining
corruption for a time may much
prevail10 yet through
the continual supply of strength from the
sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the
regenerate part doth overcome;11 and so the saints grow in
grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of
God pressing after an heavenly life, in
evangelical obedience to all the commands
which Christ, as Head and King, in His
Word hath prescribed to them.12
Footnotes:
1. Ac
20:32; Ro 6:5-6.
2. Jn
17:17; Eph 3:16-19; 1Th 5:21-23.
3. Ro
6:14.
4. Gal
5:24.
5. Col
1:11.
6. 2Co
7:1; Heb 12:14.
7. 1Th
5:23.
8. Ro
7:18,23.
9. Gal
5:17; 1Pe 2:11.
10.
Ro 7:23.
11.
Ro 6:14.
12.
Eph 4:15-16; 2Co 3:18; 7:1.
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