HOLINESS - and Justification

聖潔 - 與稱義

Any attempt to make justification dependent upon sanctification is to rob grace of its freeness and to add works to saving grace.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

任何試圖依靠成聖而得稱義的行為,都是剝奪恩典是白白得到的特色,並將行為功效加諸於救贖恩典。

Justification and sanctification are inseparable companions; distinguished they must be, but divided they can never be.

Thomas Brook

稱義與聖潔是不可分開的同伴;區分兩者是必須的,但卻不可能將兩者分開。

Any man who thinks that he is a Christian, and that he has accepted Christ for justification, when he did not at the same time accept him for sanctification, is miserably deluded in that very experience.

A. A. Hodge

任何認為自己是基督徒的人,也接受基督得著稱義,如果他沒有同時接受基督過聖潔生活,那他可是在這件事情上的可憐自欺者。

We must first be made good before we can do good; we must first be made just before our works can please God - for when we are justified by faith in Christ, then come good works.

Huge Latimer

我們必須成為良善才能做良善的事;我們必須先被稱為義才能討上帝喜悅 - 因為當我們在基督裡因信稱義時,善工隨行而到。

If Christ justifies you he will sanctify you!   He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

如果基督使你稱義,祂就會使你成聖!祂不會拯救你又把你丟在你的罪惡之中。

Justification and sanctification are distinguishable but not separable.

William S. Plumer

稱義與成聖可以區別但無法分開。

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification.

J. C. Ryle

我擔心有時候會忘記上帝將稱義與成聖結合在一起。

In the court of justification merits are nothing worth, insufficient; but in the court of sanctification...they are jewels and ornaments.

Richard Sibbes

在稱義的法庭裡,美德毫無價值,並不足取;但在聖潔的法庭裡美德就是珠寶與裝飾。

Sanctification is so involved in justification that the justification can never be real unless it be followed by sanctification.

Benjamin B. Warfield

成聖深深介入稱義之中,以致於除非隨之成聖,稱義根本無法成真。

If God should justify a people and not sanctify them, he would justify a people whom he could not glorify.

Thomas Watson

如果上帝使人稱義卻不使人成聖,祂只是使一個不能榮耀祂的人得稱為義。