Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
Question. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
Answer. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Proofs.
- [a] Rom. 5:5
- [b] Rom. 5:1
- [c] Rom. 14:17
- [d] II Pet. 3:18
- [e] Phil. 1:6; I Pet. 1:5
Source and provenance
Citation: Westminster Shorter Catechism Q. 36, Wikisource digital text.
Original work: Public-domain historical catechism
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Scripture refs: 1PE.1.5, 2PE.3.18, PHP.1.6, ROM.14.17, ROM.5.1, ROM.5.5
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