is a direct act; but when we know that we do believe, and that we do repent, this is a reflex act.”32 While the practical syllogism is not a method of reasoning employed by John Calvin, the relationship between justification and sanctification is not absent from his thought. Calvin understands justification and sanctification to be reflections of God’s “double grace” or duplex gratia. God’s justifying work in the believer where he unites the believer with Christ by faith through imputation is the
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