And we are not ourselves the first makers and formers of our new holy nature, any more than of our original corruption; but both are formed ready for us to partake of them. And, by union with Christ, we partake of that spiritual life that He took possession of for us at His resurrection, and thereby we are enabled to bring forth the fruits of it; as the Scripture shows by the similitude of a marriage union, Rom. vii. 4: "We are married to Him that is risen from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God."
Walter Marshall — The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification, Direction III (1859 New York / Carter text of the classic treatise); ~p. 61
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