Just as we are justified
So it has been roundly and vehemently affirmed for these 25 years. But I have constantly declared just the contrary, and that in all kinds of ways. I have continually testified in private and in public that we are sanctified, as well as justified, by faith. And indeed the one of those great truths exceedingly illustrates the other. Exactly as we are justified by faith, so are we sanctified by faith. Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification. It is the condition: no one is sanctified but he who believes. Without faith no one is sanctified. And it is the only condition: this alone is sufficient for sanctification. Everyone who believes is sanctified, whatever else he has or has not. In other words: no man is sanctified till he believes. Every man when he believes is sanctified.
1771 text
So it has been roundly and vehemently affirmed, for these five and twenty years. But I have constantly declared just the contrary: and that in all manner of ways. I have continually testified in private and in public, that we are sanctified, as well as justified, by faith. And indeed the one of those great truths does exceedingly illustrate the other. Exactly as we are justified by faith, so are we sanctified by faith. Faith is the condition, and the only condition of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification. It is the condition; none is sanctified but he that believes; without faith no man is sanctified. And it is the only condition: this alone is sufficient for sanctification. Every one that believes is sanctified, whatever else he has, or has not. In other words: no man is sanctified till he believes: every man when he believes is sanctified.
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Sermon 43 in the 1771 Works. Ephesians 2:8.
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