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
- 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. [↩]
- Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. [↩]
- Romans 14:17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. [↩]
- 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. [↩]
- 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. [↩]