The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 13.1

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They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, are also farther sanctified, really and personally,⁠¹⁠ through the same virtue, by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them;⁠²⁠ the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed,⁠³⁠ and the several lusts of it are more and more weakened and mortified,⁠⁴⁠ and they more and more quickened and strengthened in all saving graces,⁠⁵⁠ to the practice of all true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.⁠⁶⁠

expand_more [1] Acts 20:32; Romans 6:5–6

expand_more [2] John 17:17; Ephesians 3:16–19; 1 Thessalonians 5:21–23

expand_more [3] Romans 6:14

expand_more [4] Galatians 5:24

expand_more [5] Colossians 1:11

expand_more [6] 2 Corinthians 7:1; Hebrews 12:14

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Through sanctification:

We are made right with God

We are made children of God

We are strengthened in grace

We are given new bodies

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