Winter-evenings communication with young novices in religion. Or Questions and answers about certaine chiefe grounds of Christian religion wherein every answer, rightly understood, hath the force of an oracle of God. By Iohn Carter, preacher of Gods Word.

Sanctification. Mortification.

Question. VVE heard before how Christ bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we being delivered from sin, should live in righteousnesse: What is it to live in righteousnesse?

A. To live henceforth not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God, 1. Pet. 4. 2.

Q. What is the will of God?

A. This is the will of God, even your Sanctification, 1. Thes. 4. 3.

Q. When is our sanctification according to the will of God?

A. When, as he that calleth us is holy, so we be holy in all manner of conversation, 1. Pet. 1. 15.

Q. What reason is given why it should be so?

A. Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy, Vers. 16.

Q. So we are commanded to be perfect, as our Father which is in heaven is perfect; not for the degree, for in that we come infinitely short of

Gods holinesse, or perfection; but for truth and universality of obedience to his lawes. This leaveth no liberty to men to live after the flesh in any thing?

A. No: For if you live after the flesh, you shall die▪ Rom. 8. 13.

Q. What course then is to be taken to save our lives?

A. If through the Spirit we doe mortifie the deeds of the body, we shall live, Rom 8. 13.

Q. By this it plainly appeareth, that a neces∣sity lieth upon us, of striving to enter in at the strait gate?

A Yes: Because, Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that finde it, Mat. 7. 14.