The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 471

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SANCTIFICATION.

I.

Sanctification. " Of Him ye are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and

and sanctification, and redemption." i Cor. i. 30.

righteousness,

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Sanctification is one of the most glorious gifts which, by the It Covenant of Grace, the Mediator bestows upon the saint. We covers his entire mental, spiritual, and physical nature. should, therefore, thoroughly understand it, and learn how to obtain it, and every believer, whatever the measure of his faith, should be fully aware of his attitude toward it; for erroneous views concerning this will surely lead us astray from the living Christ. It is foolish to think that, altho present-day heresies have

af-

fected the doctrines of Christ, Sin, and Regeneration, Sanctification is

so simple as not to be affected.

sad delusion.

Men

Yet even ministers

of spiritual fervor, they strictly

fall into this

oppose heresies

concerning these others, in their catechetical and pulpit instructions, and in their writings, regarding such as fundamental error; but

somehow they never

realize that the doctrine of sanctification can

fail to put the Church on guard. Such imperiling was impossible; and so, indeed, they hardly care to have sanctification distinguished as a dogma at all. " On

be imperiled, and they

" it is

the beauty of sanctification that

it is

life ; hence utterly independent of the mysteries of a dogma.

In

the contrary," they say,

the life of sanctification believers may be charged with neglect, careless living, slow progress in brief, with faulty doing and working ; for what is sanctification but betterment of self and daily

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