The Doctrine Of The Church And The Means Of Grace
sanctify"? What is the original idea of sanctification? What are the different meanings of holiness as applied to God? What does it mean, when it is applied to persons and things? What is the difference between sanctification and moral improvement? What are the characteristics of sanctification? Is sanctification a work of God or of man? What is the negative and the positive side of sanctification?
How far does sanctification extend? What proof is there that it is incomplete in this life? Who deny this and on what grounds? How can their arguments be met? What are good works in the strict sense of the word? In how far can the unregenerate perform good works?
What is meant when it is said that good works are not meritorious?
How can we prove that they are not? Why is it impossible that they should be meritorious? Are they not represented as meritorious when we are taught that they are rewarded? In what sense are good works not necessary, and in what sense are they necessary? What is meant by the perserverance of the saints? Who deny this doctrine?
How can this doctrine be proved? What objections are there to it, and how can these be met?
References for Further Study:
Berkhof, Reformed Dogmatics, II, pp. 126–151; Hodge, Outlines of Theology, pp. 520–547; McPherson, Christian Dogmatics, pp. 404–
408; Candlish. The Work of the Holy Spirit, pp. 89–96; Orr, SideLights on Christian Doctrine, pp. 159–162.
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH