Upright people are often coming to me with complaints, and telling me, that since they received pardon, and have been seeking after sanctification, as a separate work, their hearts are become exceeding dry and barren. I ask them how they find their heart when Jesus shews his dying love. They tell me, full of peace, and love, and every heavenly temper. Then I answer, Jesus hereby shews you, that holiness as well as pardon is to be had from the blood of the cross. Labour therefore to get your conscience sprinkled every day with the atoning blood, and sanctification will ensue of course; the blood and water flow together.
John Berridge — Letters, Letter VII, to John Thornton, Esq. (Everton, Aug. 18, 1773), in The Whole Works of the Rev. John Berridge, 2nd ed. (London: Ebenezer Palmer, 1864), p. 372
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