Baptist Catechism of 1693 · Question 39
What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- Romans 5:1-2, 5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ... And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
- Romans 5:5, 17 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ... For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
- Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
- 1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Edition & Source Public domain
- Source
- The Baptist Catechism (Keach’s Catechism)
- Translation
- Original English, spelling lightly modernized; Scripture proofs: King James Version
- Published
- 1693; text of the 1695 fifth edition
- Original URL
- baptistcatechism.org/
- Copyright
- Public domain.
- License
- Public domain
- Attribution
- Public domain: published before 1931. Text taken from baptistcatechism.org, which uses the oldest known copy (the 1695 fifth edition). The other online text I found (reformedreader.org) is the Spurgeon-era version, a different wording, so it could not be used to check this one. Not yet proofread against a scanned original. Scripture proof texts are the King James Version, from the public-domain Project Gutenberg edition, added with tools/add_kjv.py. A few references could not be matched to verses (whole-chapter references such as ‘Genesis 1 throughout’, and typing slips in the source) and are shown without text.
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