By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The source and primary cause of our sanctification is the will of God, who so loved the world as to give us his only Son; the meritorious cause of our sanctification is the voluntary oblation of Jesus Christ, sacrificed for us upon the cross. Methodists shamefully misrepresent the tenets of Catholics, as if we excluded Christ from the work of our salvation, or hoped to be saved not by the merits of Christ, but by our own.
And why do you wonder that it is not the will of God now, when it was not His will even from the beginning? For who, says He, has required this at your hands? Isaiah 1:12
How then did He Himself enjoin it? In condescension. For as Paul says, I would that all men were even as I myself 1 Corinthians 7:7, in respect of continence, and again says, I will that the younger women marry, bear children 1 Timothy 5:14; and lays down two wills, yet the two are not his own, although he commands; but the one indeed is his own, and therefore he lays it down without reasons; while the other is not his own, though he wishes it, and therefore it is added with a reason. For having previously accused them, because they had waxed wanton against Christ 1 Timothy 5:11, he then says, I will that the younger women marry, bear children. 1 Timothy 5:14 So in this place also it was not His leading will that the sacrifices should be offered. For, as He says, I wish not the death of the sinner, as that he shoul...
