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A86549	Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ: or, The doctrine of sanctification (which is the greater part of our salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious, and and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, purchasing it for, working & perfecting it in his people. Applied (as it was specially intended) for the better information of our judgements, and quickning of our affections in holiness, wherein our everlasting our everlasting happiness chiefly consisteth. / Preached in the weekly lecture at Evesham in the county of Worcester, by George Hopkins, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.; Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ	Hopkins, George, 1620-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2743; Thomason E1608_1; ESTC R208454	135,124	325

delivered from the greatest evill so thereby he is restored to the chiefest and choicest good g See Master Baxters Saints Rest part 1. cap. 4. sect 4. By Reason man excelleth beasts by Holinesse he excelleth himself inferiour onely to the Angels in Degree and made like unto the Lord as far as a Creature may be to his Creator Ball of Faith pag. 285. the image of God and the enjoyment of him is Mans greatest good yea what greater good is any creature capable of than to be brought into conformity to God and the fruition of him to all eternity Now righteousnesse and holinesse are Gods Image and therefore the new man is said to be created 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after God that is after the Image of God in righteousness true holiness Eph. 4.2 And the new man is expresly said to be renewed in knowledge which we must understand of sanctified knowledge after the Image of him that created him Col. 3.10 And by this we are made capable of the eternal inheritance of the Saints in life Col. 1.12 Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet h Haec autem aptitudo vel novae dignitatis conditto ut in nobis inveniatur duo prae●upponit ex parte Dei potentem operationem misericordem acceptationem Operatione en●m acceptatione divina ●oonei constituimur ad participandam sortem sanctorum O●… divina necessaria est quia mutari nos oporre● navas 〈◊〉 efficip●ius quam participes esse p●ssumus coelestium benefi●●●um Nam in nobis nihil est aliud quam summa in●ptitudo ●●●num spirituale sive intelligendum sive faciendum sive denique ●●●um Dav. in loc to be partakers of the inheritance with the Saints in light This meetnesse requires a two-fold work of God 1. His gracious acceptation of us 2. His powerfull operation of a work of grace in us for we must be changed and made new Creatures before we can be partakers of the heavenly blessings Blessed are the pure in heart saith our Saviour Christ Mat. 5.8 for they shall see God i Nega● quenquam posse Deum videre fine sanctimonia quoniam non aliis oculis videbimus Deum quam qui reformati fuerint ad ejus imaginem Calv. in loc And without holinesse no man shall see God Ro. 12.14 Sanctification makes us capable of the vision of God not as a meer condition or passive qualification but as the necessary disposition of the Agent towards its Object as the seeing faculty is required to the act of seeing as well as a visible object Joseph said unto his Brethren Ye shall not see my face except your younger Brother be with you Benjamines being with them was nothing to their naturall faculty of seeing they had eyes sufficient to look Ioseph in the face if they might have been admitted into his presence without Benjamines being there and therefore his company was a meere condition But when the Psalmist saith Psal 119.18 Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law we take this to be his meaning that unlesse the blind eye of our understanding be illuminated we can discern no more in spirituall than the man born blinde could of naturall things till Christ had opened his eyes For the naturall man receives not the things of the Spirit of God neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned Thus without holinesse no man shall because without it no man can see k Ita Deus nobis erit notus conspi●uus ut videatur spiritu à singulis nobis in singulis nobis Aug. de Civ Dei l. 22. c. 29. God For by the Sanctification of the understanding the Soule is enabled to behold him and the sanctified will and affections onely are able to enjoy him and were an unsanctified soule in Heaven it could enjoy nothing at all of the glory of the Lord. Yea if you will but acknowledge that the great worke of Christ in the Salvation of his people consisteth in his bringing them to glory which none that is a Christian can deny our argument will be strong enough For what is grace but the beginning of glory and what is glory but the perfection of grace wherein sin is removed and compleat holinesse bestowed upon the Soule Our growth from one degree of grace to another is called our being changed or transformed from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3.18 But we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Here then grace is called glory For grace and glory differ not specifically l Magis minus non variant spe●iem but gradually and therefore are the same essentially Davenant calls Grace aetas infantilis gloriae the infant age of glory A man is the same person when he is grown to full stature as he was when he was an infant consisting both of the same essentiall and integrall parts But the difference is in growth so the glorified in Heaven are the same that were the sanctified on Earth onely in this they differ what was begun here is absolutely perfect there here they were regenerated John 3.3 1 Pet. 2.2 Isa 66.11 Eph. 4.13 and born againe and as new-born babes fed upon the sincere milke of the word sucking and being satisfied with the breasts of consolations but there they are grown to a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ and sit down at the marriage supper of the Lamb continually feasting themselves in the presence of God Because this argument may probably be the most taking with those that wait and rejoyce in the hope of glory I shall insist the more largely upon it and more particularly consider wherein Heavens glory consisteth Paul tells us Rom. 14.17 The Kingdome of God is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost He speaks indeed of the Kingdome of grace but glory being the same in kinde we may take a view of it as we are able according to these particulars 1. Righteousnesse which is the first part of glory mentioned hath different acceptions and therefore we must give you a distinction by the way 1. Righteousnesse is sometimes taken in a strict and narrow sence and is distinguished from holinesse holinesse being a conformity to the first table of the Law and righteousnesse to the second holinesse having respect to God and righteousnesse to man immediately and in this sense we take it in such texts of Scripture where holinesse and righteousnesse are both expressed as Luk. 1.75 2. Righteousnesse is sometimes taken more largely and promiscuously or convertibly with holinesse And so where we read of righteousnesse or holinesse severally in Scripture one and the same thing is usually intended And in this latitude righteousnesse or holinesse is our conformity to the whole will of God here sincerely hereafter perfectly