OF SANCTIFICATION

1.  Those who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection, are also further sanctified in a very real and personal way, through the same virtue, by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them; the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the differnt lusts of the body are increasingly weakened and mortified, and Christ’s people are increasingly quickened and strengthened in all saving graces, to practice all true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.[1]

2.  This sanctification extends throughout the whole man, yet it remains imperfect in this life; there abides still some remnants of corruption in every part, and from this arises a continual and irreconcilable war between the flesh and the Spirit; the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.[2]

3.  In this war, although the remaining corruption for a time may greatly prevail, yet through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part overcomes; and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pressing after a heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in His Word has prescribed to them.[3]