[ 386] Our sanctification is not perfected all at once.
IT is the saying of St.* 1.1 Bernard, Cecidimus super acervum lapidum & in luto; vvhen Adam fell, and when every one of us doth fall, he may be compared unto a Man, that falleth not onely into the mire, but also on a heap of stones; he may quick∣ly be bruised,* 1.2 but not so quickly healed, there is great time spent therein, even the whole time of our life: As there be many reasons why the Church is compared to the Moon, and Christ to the Sun, so one main reason may be; The odds be∣tween Justification and Sanctification; Justification maketh Christ's Righteousness ours, and it is from the first moment at the full, not capable of any encrease; but Sanctification is righteousness in us, which if it have not his wains, certainly it hath its waxings, and will not be at the full till the day of death.