According to Crawford, the separation was necessitated by rumors that Seymour had abandoned the Wesleyan position that entire sanctification was a second work of grace after conversion.

The church believes that there are three works of grace ( salvation, sanctification, spirit baptism ) that God bestows on believers often testified by many COGIC saints in this affirmation, " I am saved, sanctified, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.

The " Articles " include the following: one eternal self-existent God manifest in a threefold nature ; the divinity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit ; the authority of the Bible ; Original and Personal Sin ; the work of atonement ; prevenient grace ; the need for repentance ; justification, regeneration, and adoption ; entire sanctification ; the church ; baptism by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring ; the Lord's Supper for all believers ; divine healing ; the return of Jesus Christ ; and the resurrection of the dead.

Both the doctrines of entire sanctification and prevenient grace are usually interpreted in less rigid fashion by most church members, viewing spiritual perfection as something to strive toward, being already sanctified and forgiven for their sins under the sacrifice of Christ.

The affirmations of the church include justification by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ, sanctification by grace through faith united with good works, entire sanctification as an inheritance available to every Christian, and the witness of the Spirit to God's work in human lives.

The key beliefs of the holiness movement are ( 1 ) regeneration by grace through faith, with the assurance of salvation by the witness of the Holy Spirit ; ( 2 ) entire sanctification as a second definite work of grace, received by faith, through grace, and accomplished by the baptism and power of the Holy Spirit, by which one is enabled to live a holy life.

He differed with the Winebrennerians on the doctrine of sanctification, which he held to be a second definite work of grace, and on the nature of the church.

John Wesley taught that holiness, or Christian perfection, was a definite and instantaneous second work of grace received by faith, and followed by gradual sanctification.

After one is saved, a second work of grace ( sanctification ) makes living a holy life possible.

* sanctification as a second work of grace

We believe that man, though in possession of the experience of regeneration and entire sanctification, may fall from grace and apostatize, and unless he repents of his sin, he will be hopelessly and eternally lost.

The doctrines of the Church of God ( Holiness ) are revealed in a ten-article statement of faith, emphasizing the triune God, the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, the sinfulness of man, salvation by grace through faith in the blood of Christ, and entire sanctification as a second work of grace.

The official RCCG website outlines its beliefs in the Bible and the Holy Trinity, that the Devil exists, that God formed man in his image, in repentance, in cleansing from sins by God's grace, in sanctification, water baptism, Holy Spirit baptism, restitution and the possibility of healing without medicine ( by divine intervention through prayer ).

It believes in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite and progressive work of grace.

" Initial salvation " is sometimes seen as an initial step of acknowledging God's holiness, with sanctification as, through the grace and power of God, entering into it.

Influenced by the Holiness movement some Pentecostal churches, such as the Church of God in Christ and the Apostolic Faith Church, believe that sanctification is a definitive act of God ’ s grace and spiritual experience whereby we are made holy subsequent to salvation and prior to the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Reformed Churches are amongst denominations that teach about definitive sanctification at the time of conversion, and believers are required to " do good works " which are "… all sanctified by ( God ’ s ) grace.

In the scriptural cannon of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sanctification is mentioned in the following scriptures: Docterine & Covenants 20: 31 " we know also, that sanctification through the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is just and true, to all those who love and serve God with all their mights, minds, and strength.

United Methodists believe that sanctifying grace draws one toward the gift of Christian perfection, which Wesley described as a heart " habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor " and as " having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked.

Calvin says of this intervention that " it is not violent, so as to compel men by external force ; but still it is a powerful impulse of the Holy Spirit, which makes men willing who formerly were unwilling and reluctant ," and John Gill says that " this act of drawing is an act of power, yet not of force ; God in drawing of unwilling, makes willing in the day of His power: He enlightens the understanding, bends the will, gives an heart of flesh, sweetly allures by the power of His grace, and engages the soul to come to Christ, and give up itself to Him ; he draws with the bands of love.

* " Every time we begin to pray to Jesus it is the Holy Spirit who draws us on the way of prayer by his prevenient grace " (# 2670 Catechism of the Catholic Church ).

Swetnam draws somewhat from the much-debated scene of the Garden of Eden, saying that woman " was no sooner made but straightway ... procured man's fall ", but he spends more time naming various victims of seduction, including David, Solomon, and Samson, blaming their falls from Godly grace on the wiles of the women with whom they sinned.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

And God had conquered that one by His grace!!

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

Whenever one is incorporated into him by grace through faith, one comes to share in Jesus ' special status as chosen of God.

Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teaching on salvation and divine grace.

Understanding the Protestant " faith alone " doctrine to be one of simple human confidence in divine mercy, the Council rejected the " vain confidence " of the Protestants, stating that no one can know who has received the grace of God.

For Jews, salvation comes from God, freely given, and observance of the Law is one way of responding to God's grace.

The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".

Your grave is blessed and reward is great, by the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ O graced one, having conquered the bounds of time and place!

The Council of Trent in 1547 explicitly stated that baptism ( or desire for baptism ) was the means by which one is transferred " from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

In spite of the differences, these twin strands have much common ground, such as that salvation is entirely a work of God alone with no work by which it can be earned ( monergism ), and that one cannot either turn to God nor believe unless God has first drawn a person and implanted the desire in their heart ( the Wesleyan doctrine of prevenient grace ).

The overall appearance of the Saluki is one of grace and symmetry.

When Montenegro re-established secular dynastic succession by the proclamation of princedom in 1851, it did so in favor of the last Prince-bishop, who changed his style from Vladika i upravitelj Crne Gore i Brde " Vladika ( Bishop ) and Ruler of Montenegro and Brda " to Po Bozjoj milosti knjaz i gospodar Crne Gore i Brde " By the grace of God Prince and Sovereign of Montenegro and Brda ", thus rendering his de facto dynasty ( the Petrović-Njegoš family since 1696 ) a hereditary one.

This is how Raphael himself, who was so rich in inventiveness, used to work, always coming up with four or six ways to show a narrative, each one different from the rest, and all of them full of grace and well done.

One encounters Justice in the early-fifteenth-century moralities as a performer playing the role of a theological virtue or grace, and then one sees him develop to a more serious figure, occupying the position of an arbiter of justice during the sixteenth century.

It was an elderly recipient of one such grace and favour apartment who caused a major fire, which spread to the King's Apartments in 1986.

After principal photography was complete in 2003, Lucas made even more massive changes in Anakin's character, re-writing his entire turn to the dark side ; his fall from grace would now be motivated by a desire to save his wife, Padmé Amidala, rather than the previous version in which that reason was one of several, including that he genuinely believed that the Jedi were plotting to take over the Republic.

Although the rebels were all the while tearing down hedges and filling in ditches, only one of the 29 articles mentioned enclosure: " We pray your grace that where it is enacted for inclosyng that it be not hurtfull to suche as have enclosed saffren grounds for they be gretly chargeablye to them, and that from hensforth noman shall enclose any more ".

As the Smalcald Articles affirm, " in those things which concern the spoken, outward Word, we must firmly hold that God grants His Spirit or grace to no one, except through or with the preceding outward Word.

The stone was also partially responsible for Saruman's fall from grace, as he was using it when he came upon Sauron, and was ensnared by him, though his transformation to one of the fallen Maiar had undoubtedly begun much earlier.

: For one of the three Graces, see Thalia ( grace ).

Like other poets of the Archaic Age, he has a profound sense of the vicissitudes of life, but he also articulates a passionate faith in what men, by the grace of the gods, can achieve, most famously expressed in his conclusion to one of his Victory Odes: