If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
I ENTERED on these words last Lord's day, on occasion of the sacramental solemnity which was then celebrated among us; observed a doctrine, proposed a method, which was briefly prosecuted, and I made some practical improvement of the subject. But as this text opens a large field of discourse, and contains ample matter for directing faith and practice, I shall now endeavour to prosecute the design of the words more fully, in a series of discourses. For this end I observe the following doctrine, viz.
DOCTRINE. Such an inseparable connection there is between a sinner's having part with Christ, and being washed from his sins by Christ in a work of sanctification, that if a sinner is not washed from his sins by Christ, he has no part with Christ, while he is so.
Briefly, If a sinner is not washed from his sins by Christ, he has no part with Christ.
In handling this important subject, I shall consider,
I. What it is to be washed from our sins by Christ, viz. unto a cleanness in the eye of the gospel.
II. The unwashed or unsanctified sinner's having no part with Christ.
III. Conclude with some practical inferences.