“Inasmuch as the image of God consisted not only of knowledge and righteousness, but also of holiness, the restoration of man must restore him to a right relationship with God not only, but must also renew him internally according to the demand of His holy law.
Sin is guilt, but it is also pollution. Justification delivers man from his guilt; sanctification delivers him from the pollution of sin.
By the former his consciousness is changed, and by the latter his being is changed. By means of the first, man comes to stand in a right relationship again; by means of the second, man becomes good again and able to do good.
The word holy occurs on virtually every page of the Holy Scriptures.”
–Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God (trans. Henry Zylstra; Glenside, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 1909/2019), 451.
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