January 12, 2022

Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, 1 peace of conscience, 2 joy in the Holy Ghost, 3 increase of grace, 4 and perseverance therein to the end. 5


  1. Romans 5:5. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. []
  2. Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. []
  3. Romans 14:17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. []
  4. 2 Peter 3:18. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. []
  5. Philippians 1:6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. []

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