2. The second is grace of sanctification. He
makes us not only accepted, but also acceptable. He doth
not only purchase love for his saints, but also makes them lovely. He came
not by blood only, but by water and blood. He doth not only justify his
saints from the guilt of sin, but also sanctify and wash them from the
filth of sin. The first is from his life and death as a sacrifice of
propitiation; this from his death as a purchase, and his life as an
example. So the apostle, Heb. ix.
14; as also Eph. v.
26, 27. Two things are eminent in this issue of
purchased grace:— (1.) The removal of defilement; (2.) The
bestowing of cleanness in actual grace.