That there is a Sanctifying Principle communicated from Christ unto
Believers preparing and assisting them to the fruits of Holiness, and therefore
called the seed of God: That this Principle is more than all Natural
Endowments, or any Improvements of Nature, that are meerly Human, and
therefore called the Gift: That it is more than the Objective Influence of all
Revealed Truths, or of all the outward Actings of Providence, and therefore
called the Gift within Us: That this Principle is wrought in us by the
Operation of the Holy Spirit, and therefore all Virtues are called the Works
of the Spirit, and Christians the Temples of the Holy Ghost, are Truths that
will appear to any indifferent Enquirer as evident as any that are written in
the Book of God.
--- Thomas Ken - A Sermon Preached at Lambeth, January the 25th, 1685
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