“It is the Lord’s kindness that He will take the scum off us in the fire. Who knows how needful winnowing is to us, and what dross we must want ere we enter into the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven, that our knots, our bunches and lumps of pride, and self-love, and idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may throng in, stooping low, and creeping through that narrow and thorny entry.”
Samuel Rutherford
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Subsections
The Reformation Origins of the 3rd Use of the Law
Expositions of the Ten Commandments
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Order of Contents
Articles
Books
How Sanctification Differs from Justification
Contra Perfectionism
Quotes
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Articles
Beeke, Joel – The Puritan View of Holiness, 1998, a condensed address, 20 paragraphs
Berkhof, Louis – Sanctification, 1950, 42 paragraphs, from his Systematic Theology
Buchanan, James – The Spirit’s Work as the Spirit of Holiness, p. 435, 18 pages, from his Office and Work of the Holy Spirit
Cunningham, William – The Sinfulness of Works after Regeneration, p. 554, 13 pages, from his Historical Theology, vol. 1
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Books
Goulburn, Edward Meyrick
Thoughts on Personal Religion: being a Treatise on the Christian Life in its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice (New York, 1870) Table of contents
Goulburn (1818-1897) was an Anglican churchman. Wikipedia: “A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism… he wrote the Life (1892) of his friend Dean Burgon, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement.”
The Pursuit of Holiness, a Sequel to ‘Thoughts on Personal Religion’, intended to carry the Reader somewhat farther onward in the Spiritual Life (London, 1885) Table of contents
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How Sanctification Differs from Justification
1700’s
Brown of Haddington, John – pp. 449-451 of Book 5, Ch. 4, ‘Of Sanctifiction’ in A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion (Glasgow, 1782)
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2000’s
Phillips, Rick – Seven Assertions Regarding Justification and Sanctification 2015, 9 paragraphs
An excellent, clear and brief Biblical delineation of how Justification is distinguished from Sanctification, and how both flow out of Union to Christ. Phillips is dead-on.
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Contra Perfectionism
1600’s
Davenant, John – ‘The Works of the Regenerate are Defiled with the Pollution of Sin’ in The Determinations, or Resolutions of Certain Theological Questions, Publicly Discussed in the University of Cambridge trans. Josiah Allport (1634; 1846), pp. 271-5 bound at the end of John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification, or the Disputatio de Justitia... trans. Josiah Allport (1631; London, 1846), vol. 2
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1900’s
Warfield, B.B. –
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Quotes
Samuel Rutherford
The Divine Right of Church Government… (1646), p. 84
“For holiness in saints is a participation of the divine nature, but it is a temporary and a created participation; it is not the same very holiness that is in God, but [rather is] the created effect thereof…”
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John Owen
On the Holy Spirit, p. 575 (Goold edition)
“There is no imagination wherewith man is besotted, more foolish, none so pernicious, as this, — that persons not purified, not sanctified, not made holy in their life, should afterwards be taken into that state of blessedness which consists in the enjoyment of God. Neither can such persons enjoy God, nor would God be a reward to them. — Holiness indeed is perfected in heaven: but the beginning of it is invariably confined to this world.”
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Ralph Erskine
“When once the fiery law of God
Has chas’d me to the gospel road;
Then back unto the holy law
Most kindly gospel-grace will draw.”
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John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
“God, a Spirit, holy, just and good; God’s Law, spiritual, holy, just and good.”
“Christ’s study was his Father’s Law.”
“The buying time is past; the presenting time is future; the purging time is now.”
Regarding Christ and his Bride: “If He is careful to purify, she surely should be careful to be purified.”
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