A better evidence of God's favour than worldly comforts, viii. 416 ; a greater privilege than justification, 417.
Is a setting apart by God and by ourselves, x. 411 ; a purging by degrees, and making free from sin, 412; endowing with God's image and likeness, ib. ; should be chiefly minded in prayer, ib. ; because of the excellency of it, ib. ; because God aimeth at it in all his dispensations, ib. ; God alone can sanctify, 415 ; we cannot ourselves, ib. ; the means cannot without God, ib. ; means of, 418. See Truth.
Of believers is the setting them apart for the Lord, to glorify him in all holy conversation and godliness, xi. 10; is in the truth, ib. ; for the truth, 11 ; through the truth, ib.
Christ came for our, as well as for our justification, xi. 431 ; proved from the constant draft and tenor of the scriptures, ib. ; the plaster else would not be as broad as the sore, 432 ; Christ's undertaking would not else answer the trouble of a true penitent, nor remove our sorest burden, ib. ; to make way for the work of the Spirit, 433 ; for the glory of God, ib.
Of heart, motives to seek after, xii. 26.
Grace of, must be exercised, preserved, and increased, xii. 64.
Requisite in order to glory, xii. 461.
Must be carefully distinguished, but not separated, from justification, XV. 65 ; reasons why sanctification is the greater privilege of the two, 66 ; is the end of justification, as glorification is the end of sanctification, 67 ; the beginning of the life of glory, ib. ; a real moral perfection, ib. ; the work of faith with respect to it, 69.
An error to think that it hath no influence upon our comfort and
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peace, xviii. 414; true nature of that whicli giveth us Lopes of acceptance with God, 416.
Sanctification is meritorious, applicatory, practical, xviii. 439 ; consists in consecration and purification, ib. ; Christ the author of, 441 ; by his merit, ^6. : by his Spirit, ib.; by blessing his word and sacraments to this end and purpose, 442.
Sanctifying of God the great duty of christians, i, 89.
Is setting apart and dedicating, v. 26 ; cleansing, with its positive act, renewing and adorning with grace, 27 ; is habitual or actual, 28 ; habitual, wrought in the heart, is thorough, but not full, ib. ; actual, in the life, thoughts, words, actions, 29 ; actions sanctified when they are performed on new principles, ib. ; and for new ends, 30 ; necessity of, to the people of God, 31 ; for the honour of God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ib. ; because of the hopes to which they are called, and the happiness which they expect, 33 ; coun- terfeits of, 35 ; civiUty, ib. ; formality, 36 ; restraining grace, 37 ; common grace, 38 ; God the author of, 39. Of himself, Christ's, xi. 6 ; he separated himself from all other ends and uses but that of his work of redemption, ib. ; as God, he fitted himself for the work, 7 ; sanctified and consecrated himself as a sin-offering, that we might be sanctified and consecrated as a thank- offering, 10.
Sanhedrim, account of the, v. 259.
Sarah and Hagar, types of the covenants of grace and works, xii, 104.
Sardis, church of, its state described by its repute and renown among other churches, v. 417 ; by the judgment of Christ, 418.
Satan — see Kingdom of sin and Satan.
Has a hand in all sins, i. 206 ; but some are purely of his suggestion, ib. ; his sin in tempting must be distinguished from ours in con- senting, 208. Assaults the children of God by stirring up their enemies to persecute
them, and by inflaming their lusts and corruptions, i. 235. Strives to dissuade from good by representing the impossibility, trouble, and small necessity of it, and to persuade to evil by profit, pleasure, necessity, i. 266 ; fits his temptations to men's conditions, 268. May have some power allowed him by God over the bodies of God's people, i. 281 ; to carry them from one place to another, ib. ; in possession, ib. ; in disease, ib. ; yet this power limited, ib. ; he seeks this power in order to draw them into sin, 282 ; his contrary temp- tations, ib. . His promises are false and fallacious, i. 309 ; and have a spiteful condi- tion annexed, 310 ; never maketh a proffer to our advantage, but to our loss and hurt, ib. ; how to counterwork, 311 ; by mortification and growing dead to the world, ib. ; by considering how little sub- stance and reality is in the world's fair appearance, ib. ; by opening the eye of faith, ib. ; considering the falsity of his promises, 312 ; and the sufficiency and stability of God's promises, ib. Had a permitted power over Christ, an'd was the prime ins'trumental cause of his sufferings, i. 324; though he lost the victory, he retained his malice, ib. Cannot overcome us without our consent, i. 331. Usually a libertine ; when he professeth to be a saint, will be stricter than Christ himself, ii. 96.
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