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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

meanes of pleasing God and saying It is not This but That when it is indeed both This and That and both are links of the same Golden chaine inseparably conjunct 3. By pretending an humble abasing of man as if we must disesteem Sanctification because it is in our selves and the works of it done by our selves But indeed it is our selves that Christ meaneth to cure in our selves he dwelleth by faith our selves are the habitation and temples of his Spirit and it is our selves whom he will perfect in Glory for ever and our selves by whom he will be praysed and honoured Is grace the lesse grace because it is in or upon our selves If God had thought that all the goodnesse that is in any besides himself or all the good that is done by any other had been derogatory to his glory he would never have made any creature nor made use of any or else he would not have made them good Is the goodnesse of a Watch a dishonour to the Watchmaker or the beauty of a House dishonourable to the Builder Will God bring men to Heaven and to perfection of Holinesse at so deare a rate that we may then dishonour him by being personally perfect They that digest this unhappy doctrine are unlikely to give God the glory of his works and particularly of this excellent part of his grace 4. Another engine to destroy Sanctification concurrent with the former is the pretended advancing of Christ and Free-grace as if Christ within us were no Christ and Sanctfication were no part of Free-grace Or as if to deny Christ our love and obedience were to advance and honour him Or to Love and Prayse and obey him were to dishonour him The vanity of these delusory conceits is by Reverend and deare Brother plainly judieiously and solidly discovered in this following Treatise neither clouding the free Remission of sins by extolling mortification and holy living as the Papists nor laying our recovery wholly in relative changes and all our righteousnesse in meer reputation as the Libertines doe seeing it is by the right apprehensions and considerations of the Understanding that the Will must be rectified and the Affections elevated and sound Doctrine is the meanes to sound Apprehensions I may groundedly perswade thee Reader that by a diligent and faithfull perusall of this Treatise thou art likely to receive an addition to thy Sanctification while thou shalt read and consider of its Excellency and Necessity and to be more freed from sin while thou considerest the Desirablenesse and the way of that Freedome Read therefore and consider and the Lord give his blessing So prayes London Decemb. 21. 1654. An unworthy Servant of Christ for the promoting of the Faith and Holinesse of his Chosen Rich Baxter The AUTHOR to the READER Christian Reader IT is generally and truly observed That Civil warres are far worse than with a Forraigne nation for they are more violent and more destructive which party soever prevailes the Publique is a loser and such victories leave small cause for triumph Sad experience in this nation tells us that there have been more desperate military ingagements in those few yeares of our late warres than have been in twice the time between other warring nations And how destructive they have been both to persons and estates the sensible Countrey will pathetically tell any man if he need information Oh how many gallant English Champions slain how many fair Buildings burnt pulled downe and vast Estates ruined And where is the man almost if he had an estate before that is not a great loser But there is another Civil Warre that is yet remaining of more dangerous consequence although the multitude are not as sensible of it as of the former and that is the discord that is even among brethren in spirituall matters who yet agree in the fundamentals of the Faith This Warre as it hath the like violence so is it more destructive in the Church than that hath been in the Common-wealth How many poore soules have been destroyed and Churches ruined and what Christian almost if he will but faithfully cast up his account but hath been a great loser by it in his spirituall estate How sad is it to see Protestants not onely of the same Nation but of former intimate and indeared acquaintance write more bitterly one against another than an ingenious Protestant would doe against a Papist He that doth but read our modern English controversies will finde among many of them I dare not say all such personall aspersions and reflexions criminations and recriminations false charges and foule mis-interpreting of one anothers writings that a third person who expects to read somewhat of the Question controverted findes so much written adhominem that there is but little ad rem I am sorry to see how much gall many godly men put in their ink A man would be also ashamed to see how some that oppose other mens writings do so farre wrest their words from their meanings yea go so far wide both of words and meanings that it must be either through notorious wilfulnesse or ignorance that they so misreport them if through wilfulnesse how great is their sin if through ignorance how unfit are they to write Controversies How sad is it that some of good abilities spend most of their time they can well spare and more too from their necessary work of the Ministry in studying and writing some small Controversie in comparison of many more weighty Truths and thus imploy their talents for many yeares in the best of their age in which time they might have done the Church of God good service by some more profitable Tractates Had they bent that force against the Kingdome of Satan and Antichrist which they have done against their Brethren to the rending of the Church their labour had been worth the owning which now grieves them because they see it so much slighted Well may I say in this what was ill spoken in another case Quorsum perditio haec Why is this wast Wast of time wast of taelent to the wasting of each others reputations yea to the wasting I fear of most preious grace in the Antagonists themselves which is worst of all to the wasting of the Church Our Saviour tells us A Kingdome divided cannot stand And had not our late Wars through Gods mercy soon ended we should have seen those of us that had survived the saying sadly fulfilled in our selves But how dolefull a sight is it to see the Visible Kingdome of Christ himself in this Nation so miserably divided and though the war of Field and Garrison be ended yet the war of Presse and Pulpit is as hot as ever Alas that in this sense we so truly deserve to be called the Church Militant And I have little hopes to see it ended whilst I live And if it proceed as hotly and destructively as it hath done hitherto which we have reason to feare judge what Church-desolation is like to be before