Justification goes before sanctification… The grace of justification is a most free grace. It is not wrought upon any righteousness of ours, but it is before it… Let none, therefore, boast of their cleansing by Christ’s blood till they find themselves renewed and sanctified by the Spirit of Christ… To whom there is no condemnation? To them that are in Christ Jesus. Who are they? They who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Sanctification presupposes Justification… Sanctification is a fruit of Justification.
Admirable is the comfort, which the saints in this world reap hereby… Since their sanctification is a fruit and evidence of their Justification, they take heart… Thus upheld and comforted, they continue to strive against sin till it be clean rooted out of them as well as remitted.
—William Gouge “Domestic Duties”