explains its connection to sanctification in succinct and helpful ways. Wesley was asked, “But do you not believe inherent righteousness?” He responded, “Yes, in its proper place; not as the ground of our acceptance before God, but as the fruit of it; not in the place of imputed righteousness, but as consequent upon it. That is I believe God implants righteousness in every one to whom he has imputed it.”44 We need not manipulate the doctrine of justification so that sanctification happens by fear
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