Sanctification is of pure grace

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Robert Traill (The Lord's Prayer, John 17:24), Works 2:189:

All whose iniquities Christ did bear for their expiation, in due time Christ blesseth them, in turning every one of them away from their iniquities, Acts 3:26. This blessing of sanctification is of pure grace: for, as there is nothing of worth in a man, or regarded by God in justifying; so there is nothing of goodness, or of fit matter, for God to work upon in his sanctifying. God’s word is as clear about this as about the other. The account that we have so largely of the natural state of all men without Christ, is sufficient to show the absolute necessity all stand in of God’s grace to save them, and to declare both the freedom and power of that grace in all its applications to men. Grace is the spring of salvation, and of all its parts; Christ is the root of all; and eternal life and glory is the ripe fruit of all that grace of God, that reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 5:21.
 
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