10. Sacraments are not causes, but external σφραγίδες seals of justification, which the Spirit of Christ ἐσφραγίσεν seals in us. Rom. 4, verse 11. Eph. 1, verses 13 & 14. Rightly, therefore, the divine Augustine says: Not the Sacrament, he says, but the faith of the Sacrament justifies. Would that those who not only prefer them to the Word, but even transform them into idols, overly fascinated by the opinion of the work performed, might consider this.

DISPUTATION IX.

On Sanctification.

JOHANN JAKOB GUGGER, OF BASEL.

1. Sanctification can no more be separated from justification than sense and motion from life, or light and heat from the body of the Sun.

2. The Apostle Peter defined sanctification thus: It is to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the desires of men, but for the will of God. 1 Pet. 4, verse 2.

3. It consists in the Mortification of the flesh and the vivification of the Spirit, the former of which returns to His συμφύτους ingrafted nature from the power of the death of Christ, and the latter from the power of His resurrection. Rom. 6, 7, & 8.

4. The form of sanctification is the power and faculty itself, mortifying the old man, but vivifying the new, and consecrating the whole man to God.

5. The matter is: to mortify the old man, to vivify the new man, to cleanse oneself from all filthiness of the flesh and Spirit (that is, of body and soul), and to perfect sanctification in the fear of the Lord. 2 Cor. 7, verse 1.

6. In sanctifying, Christ separates His faithful brothers from the world and consecrates them to Himself as a peculiar possession. According to the saying: For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers. Heb. 2, verse 11.

7. Moreover, we must never cease giving thanks to God, because He chose us from the beginning to salvation through the sanctification of the Spirit, and belief in the truth. 2 Thess. 2, verse 13.

8. Sanctification is, however, a τεκμήριον evidence of preceding justification: as justification is of vocation: but vocation is of election.

9. Therefore, James rightly concludes that men are vain who boast of that faith which is without works and therefore dead. Epist. ch. 2, verse 20. For those who in their whole life show themselves to be devoid of sanctification boast in vain of justification.

10. And Christ our Lord ἀναλύσμως by analysis, not from cause to effect, but from the consequent to the Antecedent, gathering faith (by which we are justified) from charity (which should be referred to sanctification)