Q.75. What is sanctification?

A. Sanctification is a work of God’s grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit[b] applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them,[c] renewed in their whole man after the image of God;[d] having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts,[e] and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened,[f] as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life.[g]

[b] Eph. 1:4. 1 Cor. 6:11. 2 Thess. 2:13.

[c] Rom. 6:4-6.

[d] Eph. 4:23,24.

[e] Acts 11:18. 1 John 3:9.

[f] Jude 20. Heb. 6:11,12. Eph. 3:16-19. Col. 1:10,11.

[g] Rom. 6:4,6,14. Gal. 5:24.