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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

forth abortives or untimely fruit But as a woman in travaile that hath sorrow because her houre is come but as soon as she is delivered of the Child she remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world So Christ was in exceeding sorrow and heavinesse at the approach as I may say of a hard bargain when his houre drew nigh Mat. 26.38 But how abundantly was he satisfied when he saw that he had purchased a gratious and a numerous seed as the fruit of his body by those intolerable throwes that tormented his soul Thus likewise Paul having enumerated many grosse sorts of sinners 1 Cor. 6.9 10. addes ver 11. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus q Nam sanguis Christi purgationis nostrae materia est ex ejus morte et resurrerectione justitia et sanctificatio nobis contigit Calv. in loc Hoc adjecit ut Mediatorem etredemptorem in memoriam redigat per quem nobis tot bona provenerunt Pet. Mart. in loc and by the Spirit of our God What is here wrought by the Spirit was purchased by Christ and is wrought upon his account or in his name for there is no other name given under Heaven whereby we should be saved from our sins This is the fountaine mentioned Zach. 13.1 that is opened to the house of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse that they may be purified therein This is signified in baptism under the Gospell Titus 3.5 Which is called the laver of regeneration For as the washing of water puts away the filthinesse of the flesh so the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 This also was typisied by the ceremoniall washings under the Law if we look back unto them which in themselves were ineffectuall as is plainly expressed at large Heb. 9. take more speciall notice of ver 12.13.14 Neither by the blood of Goats and calves but by his own blood he entred into the holy place having obtained eternall redemption for us For if the blood of Bulls and of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God As likewise Heb. 10. The Apostle shews the insufficiency of the legall rites in the beginning of the Chapter and therefore the Sacrifice of Christ must take place according to Scripture which saith Lo I come to doe thy will O God by which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all And ver 14. by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified according to the tenour of the new Covenant wherein saith the Lord I will put my Lawes into their hearts and in their mindes will I write them as you may read ver 16. see more in the following verses Multitudes of texts to this purpose might be quoted as those that are produced to confirme the Doctrine which I will not stand to repeate and many others I shall summe up all in a word Whatsoever is promised in Scripture concerning our Sanctification is purchased and ratified by Christ Jesus For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him amen unto the glory of God by us 2 Cor. 1.20 Christ the Efficient cause of sanctifying grace Christ the procreating cause of sanctification Christ saves his people as the Efficient cause working Sanctifying grace in them And he is 1. The Procreating 2. The Conserving 3. The Perfecting cause of it For in and by him Grace is begun continued increased and perfected Christ is the procreting or principall efficient cause of Sanctification He is therefore said to be made unto us of God-Sanctification 1 Cor. 2.30 Heb. 2.11 For both he that Sanctifieth and they who are sanctified c. And him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel Act. 5.31 And he is called Jesus the Author and finisher of our Faith Heb. 12.2 And what is said of Repentance and Faith may be said of every Grace for he is the fountaine of Grace and doth willingly communicate and readily distribute to the necessities of his people It pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Col. 1.19 And in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Col. 2.3 Hid not from but for his people for saith John c. 1.16 of his fulnesse we all receive and grace for grace Christs sanctifying work consists of two parts 1. r Not that these are two really distinct parts or works but one worke in distinct respects or considerations The rooting out of sinne 2. The implanting of Grace Sinne is called the old man the flesh the body of sinne and our old man is said to be crucified with Christ that the body of sinne might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sinne Rom. 6.6 And they that are Christs are said to have crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts Gal. 5.24 Grace is called the new man Eph. 4.24 the new creature Gal. 6.15 the first resurrection Rev. 20.6 and the faithfull are risen with Christ Col. 3.1 And we are said to be dead unto sin and alive unto God through Jesus Christ Rom. 6.11 In all which we see that the two parts of the worke referre to the death and resurrection of Christ not meerly because Christs death and resurrection purchased it for us but also because by the same power that he raised up himselfe from the dead he actually mortifies our sins and raiseth us againe to newnesse of life The Faithfull have an interest in Christs Death and Resurrection by way of communion with him he communicates unto them the vertue of his Death and Resurrection makes them therein conformable to himselfe Thus saith Paul Phil. 3.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship or communion of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death Obj. Is not the holy Ghost our Sanctifier as Christ is our Redeemer and the Father our Creator in a speciall manner Why then doe you attribute that to Christ as the speciall Efficient which belongs to the Holy Ghost Answ 1. It is true that these works are in some speciall manner attributed to the three persons severally and the holy Ghost is specially called by Divines our Sanctifier as may also be proved from severall texts of Scripture Yet withall we must remember that the workes of the Trinity that are termed workes ad extra are undivided thus God the Father created Eph. 3.9 The Son created John 1.3 All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made And the Holy Ghost created Gen. 1.2 So in this new creation the Father sanctifies therefore Christ prayes Joh. 17.17 Sanctifie them with thy truth The Son sanctifies

as hath been already proved at large And the Holy Ghost sanctifies Rom. 1.4 Divines joyne them all togegether thus God the Father sanctifies us in Christ by the Holy Ghost In the forming of the new man the whole Trinity is imployed as at the framing of the first Man when God said Let us make man after our owne image Gen. 1.26 Where note by the way that in this work though the three persons are all imployed they are not subordinate causes nor three co-ordinate causes concurring to the same effect but one cause For although there be a mysterious distinction of the persons yet by reason of the Unity of the Essence s Ubi caedem sunt operationes ibi eadem essentia Et vice versâ there is a Unity of the Divine attributes and operations And thus according to the confession of Athanasius we say The Father is God the Son is God the Holy Ghost is God and yet there are not three Gods but one God The Father Almighty the Son Almighty the Holy Ghost Almighty and yet there are not three Amighties but one Almighty So we must say The Father Created the Son Created the Holy Ghost Created and yet there are not three Creators but one Creator So also the Father Sanctifies the Son Sanctifies the Holy Ghost Sanctifies and yet there are not three Sanctifiers but one Sanctifier Thus they are all but one cause because they all have but one and the same causality viz. one and the same Divine power by which they worke This mysterie may be intimated in that Hebrew Idiotism Gen. 1.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where a verb singular is joyned with a noune plurall signifying the unity of causality action as well as of Essence and Nature in the three persons Though the Holy Ghost is specially called our Sanctifier Answ 2 because he doth immediately sanctifie yet may the worke be eminently attributed to Christ 1. Because the Holy Ghost the sanctifying spirit is given by Christ to his people Mat. 3.11 He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire which is of a purifying nature John 15.26 When the Comforter is come whom I will send you from the Father even the spirit of truth c. Ch. 16 17. If I goe not away John 1. 16 17. Col. 1 19. ver 18. John 15. 1 Part. the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you 2. Because in Christ is the fulnesse of all Grace and the faithfull derive it from him as the Members from the head t Caput distat distinguitur à suis membris tripliciter 3. Ratione causalitatis influentiae Caput enim motum sensum omnibus membris impertit communicat membra omni motu sensu destituuntur fi à capite sejungantur Sic Christus vitam spiritualem motum gratiae infundit membris suis altoqui stupidis mortuis ab omni motu spirituali destitutis Sin● me nil potetestis facere at contra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dav. in Col. cap. 1. ver 18. as the branches from the stock as the streame from the fountaine He received the spirit without measure and conveieth it in measure to his people As Christ is the Procreating cause of sanctifying grace so is he the conserving cause of it It is he that gives and maintaines the life of grace As God at first by his power made all things of nothing and since maintaines them in their being by his providence having their continued being from him who gave them their first being so that the Apostle saith Act. 17.28 In him we live move and have our being So is it in the new Creature the continuance of Grace is from Christ u Neque ipsum recte vivere nobis ex nobis est nifi credentei adjuvet orantes qui et ipsam fidem dedit quia nos ab illo adjuvandos esse credanius Aug. de Civ Dei lib. 19 cap. 4. who created the first Grace in the Soule and we are no more able to live the life of Grace or performe any gracious worke without his conserving co-operating and assisting grace than we are able to live walk and worke without the preservation and assistance of Divine Providence Christ is to the Soule as the Soule is to the Body when Saint Paul saith Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ yet neverthelesse I live he doth with an Epanorthosis correct himselfe thus yet not I but Christ liveth in me As if he should say this spirituall life of Grace which I now live is not from my selfe but from Christ who liveth in me to wit by his Grace and gives life and motion to me As the Soule gives life to the Body and the Body lives no longer than the Soule is united to it but becomes a dead carcase whensoever it is separated from it So if Christ who is the life of the Soule should be severed from it it would immediately become dead againe in Trespasses and Sinnes and able to doe no more in Grace than a dead Corps in Nature This our Saviour Christ himself excellently proves and illustrates in another comparison John 15.5 6. As the branch cannot beare fruit of it selfe except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine and ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can doe nothing As the branches that sprout out of the vine receive sap from it whereby they are preserved and become fruitfull but being once broken off become dead and fruitlesse having no more sap or life in themselves So saith Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 severed from me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye can doe nothing There are in the Greek two negatives which deny the more vehemently as if he should say ye cannot possibly doe any thing for if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered Philosophers are of opinion that if the Heavens should stand still but a minute of an houre and withhold their influence from this lower world man could not move so much as a little finger Much more if Christ should but withhold the influence of his grace from us should we be unable to move one haires breadth towards any good Christ is likewise called the head and the faithfull the members w Caput membra in eo conveniunt quod babeant inter se continuitatem quod omnia actum suum informationem habeant ab eadem anima Sic caput hoc mysticum omnia ejusdem membra habent continuitatem quandam inter se informationem suam spiritualem vivificationem ab codem principio Est enim inter