ought to increase, daily until it reaches its perfection in the future life, but in this life the believer is “justified in part” only.17 He is “to some degree righteous, to some degree sinful.”18 While the believer is being purified, God forgives the sins which remain in him and does not impute them as guilt. Thus the Christian has a twofold grace: (1) forgiveness and (2) justification or renewal. Sin “remains as to its activity, but it passes away as to its guilt. Not that it ceases to exist, but