"A holy violence, a conflict, a warfare, a fight, a soldier's life, a wrestling, are spoken of as characteristics of the true Christian" (J. C. Ryle, Holiness, xvi).
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"[T]he plain truth is, that men will persist in confounding two things that differ -- that is, justification and sanctification. In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe -- only believe; in sanctification the word must be "watch, pray, and fight." What God has divided let us not mingle and confuse" (xvii).
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