with regeneration, 1 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 caft 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 ftrengthened. This work lafts through the faint's whole life, and is never perfected till death.

Thefe are one and the fame work for fubftance, though differing in circumftances; and no man has the one, but he has the other too. Initial fanctification goes before juftification in the order of nature, as being the principle from which faith doth arife; and this accounts for the apoftle's order in the text: but progreffive fanctification, i. e. fanctification diftingui. ed from regeneration, follows juftification.

SECONDLY, Let us confider the Author of fanctification, whofe 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 ourfelves with all impurity, but cannot cleanse ourselves. We will lie ftill in our filthiness, till help come from another quarter, Eph. ii. 1. We are bid to cleanfe our hands and hearts: but alas! the rule of our duty is not the measure of our ftrength.

2. Pofitively, It is the work of God; for it needs no lefs power than was neceffary for creating a world, or raifing the dead. It is the work of a whole Trini ty 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. 13through fanctification of the

Spirit. But in a fpecial manner it belongs to the Spirit: as the Father elects, the Son redeems, and the Holy Ghoft fanctifies. It is the work of the Spirit of God then. For,

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

2. In progreffive 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 fpread out his fails, if the wind from heaven blow not, Cant. iv. 16. No blow of his ftruck in the battle againft lufts will do execution, if the Spirit do not carry it home.

THIRDLY, The moving caufe of it. Sanctification is a great benefit: whom the Lord bettows it upon, he puts an honour on, for they are fet apart for himfelf. There is an intrinfic glory in holiness, Pfal. xlv. 13. The King's daughter is all glorious within. God is glorious 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 notwithftanding of thefe, but not if they have this,

The only caufe of it is free grace, not any perfonal worth in the creature, Tit. iii. 5. As the fun fhines 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 ftench and rottennefs in the dead

foul, till the fanctifying Spirit enter into him. His beft difpofitions, actions, and performances are fin, being without faith, and the mere product of naturé unrenewed.

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

3. Sovereign grace often chufes the time for fanctifying the finner, when he has gone the fartheft length in fin and wickednefs. Paul was carried the length of blafphemy and perfecution ere fanctifying grace took hold of him, 1 Tim. i. 13. And Manaffeh was

carried to horrid murders and witchcanaffeh was

ere he was prevented by divine grace. Many have been carried to extraordinary acts of wickednefs, whereby they have loft their lives in the courfe of juftice, whom grace has plucked as brands out of the burning, to proclaim the freedom of grace.

The

FOURTHLY, I fhall fhew wherein fanctifica: ticn confifts, or what the Spirit doth to a finner when he fanctifies him. It confifts in the renewing of the finner after the image of God, Eph. iv. 23. 24. ruin of man's nature lay in defacing of the image of God which was upon him: fanctification 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. Deftroying of the body of fin, called the old man, Rom. vi. 6. putting it away, Col. ii. 11. The Spirit of the Lord breaks the dominion of fin in the

foul, and turns it off the throne, that it cannot command the finner as aforetime, Rom vi. 14. weakens and mortifies the feveral lufts thereof, Rom. viii. 13. So that it is a crucified man, who has got his death's wounds by the nails, and fhall 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 fanctification; the feed of heaven, which can never mifgive, but will fpring up to everlafting 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 refpect 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 fo. His lufts are upon the crofs, 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 righteoufnefs, Rom. vi. 4. The fanctified finner leads a new life, in refpect of which he is as a man raised from the dead, not meddling as before in the business of the world: fo the fanctified finner lives as one of another world, not conforming himself to the finful courfes of this world, but being transformed into a likeness to thofe of the better world, Rom, xii. 2. Phil. iii. 20. The bufinefs of his life is to ferve the Lord, and work out his own falvation; to be preparing for the eternal reft in heaver, whither his heart is carried before him.

SIXTHLY, Let us view the fubject of fanctification. Under which confider,

1. Who are fanctified. 2. What of them is fanctified. First, Who are fanctified. It is the elect who are fanctified, even all of them, and they only, Eph i. 4. 2 Theff. ii. 13. And elect infants And elect infants among the reft, dying in infancy, being naturally corrupted, muft needs be fanctified too, by the Holy Spirit, fince they are of the number of the elect. For others may be fanctified from the womb, Jer. i. 5. And none other but the elect do partake of this grace of fanctification: so 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 leayen, that goes thro' the whole lump, and makes every part of the man holy.

iii. 10.

1. The foul is fanctified in all the faculties thereof, new qualities being infufed into and advanced in them. (1.) The understanding naturally darkened, is renewed in faving knowledge after God's image, Col. A new light is ftruck out in the mind; the light of grace arites there, whereby the foul knows fpiritual things in another manner than before; and this advanceth unto the perfect day, Prov. iv. 18. (2.) The will, naturally perverfe and rebellious, gets a righteous fet and bent, agreeable to the will of God, Eph. ii. 24. whereby it is averfe 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 fanctification of the confcience and memory.

2. The body is fanctified, in fo far as it is made the temple of the Holy Spirit, and a member of Christ, 1 Cor. vi. 15. 19. And the members thereof are changed in respect of their ufe, becoming inftruments of righteoufnefs employed for the Lord, Rom. vi. 13. In relped of which the body is prefented a holy facri