Question 35

Whose work is Sanctification?

It is Gods work.^a

What moved him to sanctifie us?

His free-grace alone.^b

Wherein doth our Sanctification consist?

In our Renovation.^c

What is the subject of our Sanctification?

The whole man, Understanding, Will, Conscience, Memory, Affections, which are all renewed and changed in regard of their qualifications, and all the Members of our Body, in regard of their use, being made instruments of righteousness.^d

According to what Pattern is this work wrought?

After the Image of God (which consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness.^e

Wherein is our Sanctification begun?

In our Regeneration and effectual calling; wherein our minds are first enlightened, and the habits of all graces are infused.

How is our Sanctification carried on?

It is carried on by degrees, as God doth bless all dispensations, especially his Ordinances, through them to communicate further measures of his Spirit and Grace.

Wherein is our Sanctification perfected?

In our Glorification, when we shall be made perfectly free from sin, and fully conformable to the Image of God.

You have described the habit of Sanctification, which lies in being renewed in the whole man after the Image of God: wherein stands the exercise of Sanctification?

In dying unto sin and living unto righteousness.

What is it to die unto sin?

To cease to love and practise it.^f

What is it to live unto Righteousness?

To spend the whole strength and time of our lives in the practise of righteousness.^g

Is this work done perfectly, and all at once here upon earth?

No, we are enabled more and more so to do.^h

Wherein doth Sanctification differ from Iustification and Adoption?

1. Justification and Adoption are acts of God without us: Sanctification is a work of God within us. 2. Justification and Adoption do make a relative change; Sanctification doth make in us a real change.

But since Scripture calls Iustification our righteousness as well as Sanctification, why do you make them to differ?

1. Justification is an imputed righteousness; Sanctification is an inherent. 2. Justification is a righteousness that makes a change in the sinners state, whereby he becomes absolved at the Bar of divine Justiceⁱ (for Justification is a Lawstate, it abolisheth the convincing power of sin, or its Guilt) but Sanctification is a righteousness wrought in the sinners person, whereby he becomes a new^j creature.