Calvin on Grace and Sin

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“Wherefore, in this regeneration, we are restored by the grace of Christ to the righteousness of God, from which we fell in Adam; in which manner the Lord is pleased completely to restore all those whom he adopts to the inheritance of life. And this restoration is not accomplished in a single moment, or day, or year; but by continual, and sometimes even tardy advances, the Lord destroys the carnal corruptions of his chosen, purines them from all pollution, and consecrates them as temples to himself; renewing all their sense to real purity, that they may employ their whole life in the exercise of repentance, and know that this warfare will be terminated only by death.”
“As if, indeed, when any thing is to be defined, we are not to inquire after the completeness and perfection of it. It is not denied that there is room for further advances; but I assert, that as far as any man approaches to a resemblance of God, so far the image of God is displayed in him. That believers may attain to this, God assigns them the race of repentance to run during their whole life.”

“We maintain, therefore, that sin always exists in the saint, till they are divested of the mortal body; because their flesh is the residence of that depravity of concupiscence, which is repugnant to all rectitude.”
-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion: Chapter III, On Repentance

Simul lustus Et Peccator