If a blessed resurrection is to ensue, then it first must be preceded by a blessed death—that one especially die to sin.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis I:271.
Woe, therefore, to those who, after they have come to faith in Christ, think they have no received a license freeing them from the earnest pursuit of sanctification.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 274.
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