Except a man be born again, Jesus persistently preached to Nicodemus.

'Did it begin with regeneration ?' was Dr.
Duncan's reply when a sermon on sanctification was praised in his hearing.

And like so much else that the learned and profound Dr.John Duncan said on theology and philosophy, that question went at once to the root of the matter.

For sanctification, that is to say, salvation, is no mere reformation of morals or refinement of manners.

It is a maxim in sound morals that the morality of the man must precede the morality of his actions.