“Justification is the work of Christ for us; sanctification the work of the Spirit in us; justification is perfect at once; sanctification is progressive; justification is before sanctification, and sanctification is the fruit of justification; consequently the evidence of our justification is our sanctification.”

—  John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.

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British abolitionist 1785–1859

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