A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.

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A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
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Congregational Churches in England.
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London :: printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry,
1688.
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Congregational churches -- Catechisms -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52593.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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CHAP. XIII. Of Sanctification.

THey that are united to Christ, ef∣fectually called and regenerated, having a new Heart and a new Spirit created in them, through the vertue of Christ's Death and Resurrection, are al∣so further Sanctified really and perso∣nally through the same Vertue, by his

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Word and Spirit dwelling in them; the dominion of the whole body of Sin is destroyed, and the several Lusts thereof are more and more weakned, and mor∣tified, and they more and more quick∣ned and strengthned in all Saving Gra∣ces, to the practice of all true Holiness, without which no Man shall see the Lord.

II.

This Sanctification is throughout in the whole man, yet imperfect in this life, there abideth still some remnants of cor∣ruption in every part, whence ariseth a continual and irreconcileable war, the flesh lusting against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.

III.

In which war, although the remain∣ing corruption for a time may much pre∣vail, yet through the continual supply of

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strength from the Sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the Regenerate part doth over∣come, and so the Saints grow in Grace, perfecting Holiness in the fear of God.

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