Christ the way and the truth and the life, or, A short discourse pointing forth the way of making use of Christ for justification and especially and more particularly for sanctification in all its parts, from Johan. XIV, vers. VI : wherein several cases of conscience are briefly answered, chiefly touching sanctification / by John Brown.
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- Christ the way and the truth and the life, or, A short discourse pointing forth the way of making use of Christ for justification and especially and more particularly for sanctification in all its parts, from Johan. XIV, vers. VI : wherein several cases of conscience are briefly answered, chiefly touching sanctification / by John Brown.
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- Brown, John, 1610?-1679.
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- 1677.
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- Sanctification.
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"Christ the way and the truth and the life, or, A short discourse pointing forth the way of making use of Christ for justification and especially and more particularly for sanctification in all its parts, from Johan. XIV, vers. VI : wherein several cases of conscience are briefly answered, chiefly touching sanctification / by John Brown." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29748.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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for duties; yea and sometimes, as much subject to sin and corruption, as others.
Answere. 1. However it be with them, either in thine eyes, or possibly in their own, sometimes; yet thou may hold thy peace: for in their worste condition, they would not exchange with thee, for a world. In their deadest-like condition, they are not voide of all life, as thou art, notwithstanding all thy motions, and seeming activenesse in duty▪ because all thy motion in and about duty is but like the moveing of childrens puppies, caused by external motives, such as a name, applause, peace from a natural conscience, or the like; and not from any in∣ward principle of grace and life.
2. Howbeit they sometimes seem to be dead; yet they are not alwayes so; life doth really worke sometimes in them: whereas there was never any true or kindly motion of life in thee.
3. There may be more life in them, yea life in motion, when they seem to be overcome with some lusts or corruption, yea when really they are over∣come; then beholders, that are strangers to the heart, can observe: for when temptation is vio∣lent, as having the advantage of the time & place, of the constitution of the body, and the like, it argu∣eth no small degree of life, and of life in motion, to make some resistance and opposition thereunto, though at length he should be overcome thereby. And this opposition and resistence, flowing from a principle of grace, speaketh out life, though cor∣ruption, having the advantage, should at that time over - power the motion of life, and carry the man away.
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4. If it be not otherwise with beleevers than is objected, they may blame themselves: for not improveing Christ better for life.