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- KUYPER, ABRAHAM 1837-1920
"Holy Raiment Of One's Own
Weaving"
"The supporters of the ordinary Arminian doctrine consider this representation impossible. They
believe that sanctification is an effect of the saint's own exertion, exercise, and conflict. It is like a
beautiful garment of fine linen, very desirable, but it must be of one's own weaving. This labor is
begun immediately after the saint's conversion. The loom is set up, and he begins to weave. He
continues his spiritual labor with but few interruptions. The piece of linen gradually increases
under his hand, and assumes form and shape. If not cut down in early life, he expects to finish it
even before the hour of his departure. The pulpit must oppose this theory, which comes, not from
Arminius's books, but from man's wicked heart. For it is not only very comfortless, but
also wicked."
- KUYPER, ABRAHAM 1837-1920
"The Pietist And
The
Perfectionist"
"We oppose, therefore, the attempts of the Pietist and of the Perfectionist, who say that they have
nothing more to do with the old man, that nothing remains in them to be mortified, and that all
that is required of them is to hurry the growth of the new man. And we equally oppose the
opposite, which admits the dying of the old man, but denies the rising of the new, and that the
soul receives all that it lacks."
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KUYPER, ABRAHAM 1837-1920
"Sanctification And Justification"
Sermon 1 - Sanctification
Sermon 2 - Sanctification And Justification
"Care must be taken not to confound sanctification with justification; a common mistake,
frequently made by thoughtless Scripture readers. Hence the importance of a thorough
understanding of this difference. Being left unnoticed, it may lead to confused preaching, which
causes one-sidedness; and active and thoughtful men invariably systematize their one-
sidedness."
- TURRETIN, FRANCIS 1623-1687
"The Sanctification Of The Saint"
"Further with regard to the question here agitated between us and the Romanists-whether the
works of believers are and can be called truly good. We must distinguish between truly good and
perfectly good. We have proved before that the latter cannot be ascribed to the works of the
saints on account of the imperfection of sanctification and the remains of sin. But the former is
rightly predicated of them because although they are not as yet perfectly renewed, still they are
truly and unfeignedly renewed. While the Romanists are unwilling to make this distinction, they
falsely charge us with denying that the works of believers are truly good because we maintain that
they are imperfect, since the truth and perfection of works are notwithstanding most diverse and
the former can be granted without the latter."
- WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"Entire Sanctification"
"There is no feature of Christianity more strongly emphasized by those to whom its establishment
in the world was committed, than the breadth and depth of its ethical demands. The "salvation"
which was promised in the "Gospel" or "Glad Tidings" which constituted its proclamation, was
just salvation from sin and unto holiness. In other words, it was a moral revolution of the most
thoroughgoing and radical kind. "Sanctification" is the Biblical word for this moral revolution, and
in "sanctification" the very essence of salvation is made to consist."
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