John Wesley's View Of Sanctification '

Paralleling this broader doctrine of salvation by faith, John Wesley highlights that this narrower part of salvation, specifically justification, is the outcome of a narrower concept of faith. This narrower faith is the belief that God has personally reconciled the believer to Himself through the atoning life and death of Christ. It is by faith that we put on the righteousness of Christ. For John Wesley, faith was the only condition of justification: “no man is justified till he believes; every man when he believes is justified.” Nevertheless, Wesley does recognize that repentance and the display of proper moral fruit are essential for justification in some sense. Wesley goes on to argue that they are only necessary if there is time for

Sanctification is the method by which Christians become holy, Taking off their sinful nature and taking on the caring nature of Christ. According Wesley, sanctification is to be “saved from sin, and perfected in love.”
This process of sanctification starts at the instant of justification and consists of an inward rebirth by God’s power, a recognizing of God’s love, and the active love toward all humankind, particularly the church. Likewise, the love of self and world is cast off. Wesley also notes that sanctification is “enabled by the Spirit” and that the obedience it produces constitutes worship of God “in spirit and in truth.”
As for justification, John Wesley states that faith is the sole condition for sanctification: “Every one that believes is sanctified, whatever else he has or has not.” Faith is the purifying agent that produces love. However, the faith that sanctifies is slightly different from the faith that justifies. Sanctifying faith is the divinely-given fourfold conviction that sanctification is promised in scripture; that God is able to perform what he promised; that he is willing to perform it now; and that “He doeth