Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
This promise of sanctification, is the principal promise of the covenant, made to Christ for his elect seed. Among the other promises of that class, it shines as the moon among the twinkling stars. Sanctification, is the chief subordinate end of the covenant; standing in it next to the glory of Jehovah, which is the chief ultimate end of it.
All the foregoing promises; the promise of preservation, of the quickening Spirit, of faith, of justification, and of a new and saving relation to God, tend thereto, and stand related to it as means to their end. They are all fulfilled to elect sinners, on purpose to render them holy. And all the subsequent promises, even the promise of glorification itself, are but the promise of sanctification extended. …
For more, see John Colquhoun on the promise of sanctification in the covenant of grace.
All the foregoing promises; the promise of preservation, of the quickening Spirit, of faith, of justification, and of a new and saving relation to God, tend thereto, and stand related to it as means to their end. They are all fulfilled to elect sinners, on purpose to render them holy. And all the subsequent promises, even the promise of glorification itself, are but the promise of sanctification extended. …
For more, see John Colquhoun on the promise of sanctification in the covenant of grace.