The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 530

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XIV.

The Person

Sanctified.

"The

putting

off of

of the flesh."

the body of the sins

Col.

ii.

ii.

Sanctification embraces the whole man. body and soul, with the parts, members, and functions that belong to each respectively. It embraces his person and all of his person. This is why sanctification progresses from the hour of regeneration all through life, and can be completed only in and through death. all

St.

Paul prays for the church of Thessalonica: "The God of

tvholly, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Sanctification is essentially a work of one piece, simply

peace sanctify you

because our person

is

not pieced together, but

is

organically one

in all its parts.

The

He

is

and

sinner's holiness or unholiness embraces his whole being.

a sinner not only in his body, but in his soul, and even more so;

in his soul not only

because his will

is

unholy, but also because

and even more so. The memory, the imagination, and all that belongs to him as a man are radically defiled, desecrated, and corrupted by sin. He lies in the midst of death. Even in a small child, every part is affected. Without the least exertion he learns a street-song, while it seems almost impossible to commit one stanza of a psalm. his understanding is unholy,

If sanctification

has reference to the inherited stain, as

tion to the inherited guilt,

it

justifica-

follows that sanctification must ex-

tend as far as the inherited stain.

If

ered with the poison of the stain,

it

man's entire person is covmust be covered much more

abundantly by sanctification. Sin is disturbance, derangement, discord, and warfare in home and heart, and is not overcome completely until superseded by holy peace. This is the reason why St. Paul calls the God of sanctification the God of peace and so he prays for the Church that the God ;

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