Chapter 18: Sanctification and good works: definition
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.On sanctification and good works.
Sanctification or renewal of believers and GOOD WORKS are actions of the converted performed by the Holy Spirit's operation from true faith according to the norm of divine law, by which sin is continually mortified in them and God's image renewed unto obedience and honor to God.
Renewal differs from regeneration: by regeneration we are made God's children; by renewal we are declared such. The one changes state; the other qualities.
Latin
CAPUT DECIMUM OCTAVUM, De sanctificatione et bonis operibus. Sanctificatio sive renovatio fidelium et BONA OPERA sunt actiones hominum conversorum per operationem Spiritus Sancti ex vera fide secundum normam legis divinae praestitae, quibus singulis momentis in ipsis peccatum mortificatur et imago Dei renovatur ad obedientiam atque honorem Deo deferendum. Renovatio a regeneratione differt: per regenerationem filii Dei efficimur; per renovationem filii Dei declaramur. Illa mutatio status; haec qualitatum.