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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
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The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
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