Paras | |
1 | I. The description of sanctification |
A. Its inception in definitive sanctification | |
B. Its increase in progressive sanctification | |
1. Its character: "really and personally" | |
2. Its source: "through the same virtue" | |
3. Its means: "by his Word and Spirit" | |
4. Its substance: | |
Negatively, sin is weakened and mortified | |
Positively, grace is quickened and strengthened | |
5. Its necessity: "without which no man shall see the Lord" | |
2-3 | II. The distinctives of sanctification |
2 | A. Struggle with sin |
1. The roots of this struggle | |
2. The nature of this struggle | |
3. The combatants in this struggle | |
3 | B. Progress in grace |
1. The difficulty of this progress | |
2. The certainty of this progress | |
3. The quality of this progress | |
From: Samuel E. Waldron, A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, (Evangelical Press, 1989), p174. Used by permission.