Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
18. Is justification an act that takes place once and for all, or an act that can be repeated?
a) The Roman Catholic church makes a distinction between a first and second justification. The first consists in the infusion of habitual grace, by which original sin is suppressed and expelled … The formal cause of the second justification is to be sought in good works that man himself performs. This is a confusion of sanctification and justification, and makes the fruits of the former meritorious. As justification becomes sanctification, so sanctification again becomes justification in the hands of Rome – naturally, a legalistic justification.
For the reference, see Geerhardus Vos on the error of two justificatons.
a) The Roman Catholic church makes a distinction between a first and second justification. The first consists in the infusion of habitual grace, by which original sin is suppressed and expelled … The formal cause of the second justification is to be sought in good works that man himself performs. This is a confusion of sanctification and justification, and makes the fruits of the former meritorious. As justification becomes sanctification, so sanctification again becomes justification in the hands of Rome – naturally, a legalistic justification.
For the reference, see Geerhardus Vos on the error of two justificatons.
