Sanctification is an effect of justification

November 28, 2009

in Lutheranism,Quotations,Theology

Martin Chemnitz, Loci Theologici, p555:

This distinction between causes and effects is also useful for showing that sanctification or renewal is to be distinguished from justification, and that the new obedience is not a cause or an essential part of our justification, because it is an effect or a result.

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