God's Justification & Sanctification of the Sinner
Faith. Both the sole instrument of justification and sanctification. Faith alone in Christ alone justifies. Faith alone in Christ alone sanctifies. Though both justification and sanctification have the same sole instrument, namely faith, they differ in their natures and consequences. Justification is that sole act of God's free grace toward the sinner in crediting to him Christ's righteousness and satisfaction, world without end. God justifies. It is His act. The object of justification is the sinner. It has no effect in the sinner, that is, it does not change his nature. It affects his legal status before God, that is his standing in God’s court of law. Though he be guilty, yet because of Christ's righteousness and blood-atonement (satisfaction), he be accounted by God as justified, righteous before the law, not condemnable. God has ordained faith alone as the instrument for justification. That is, the graces of Jesus' blood and righteousness are re
