process consisting of several parts: creation in the image of God, original sin, repentance, justification and sanctification. Every step we take in this process depends on the grace of God and the faith with which we respond. Within justification, he stressed the doctrines of the new birth and assurance of faith, which he called “the witness of the Spirit” (based on Rom 8:16). His doctrine of sanctification was controversial in the eighteenth century because he stressed the possibility of entire
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