Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

This is solid scriptural and Wesleyan doctrine. The love of the regenerate is "sincere, genuine, and
real," although "mixed with selfishness" as well as "fear." And his "mixed" and "imperfect" love may
be "made pure" and "perfect" in this life.
The sum of what has been said in the argument from Scripture in this and preceding chapters is:
1. That sanctification is usually, if not invariably, wrought subsequently to regeneration.
2. That, as a baptism or circumcision, it is an instantaneous work, following a longer or shorter
period of gradual preparation for it.
3. That the cases of the one hundred and twenty at Pentecost, and of others given in Acts, establish
the two above positions.
4. That the exhortations, prayers, and didactic teaching of the Epistles, especially the use of the
Greek aorist tense, tend clearly to the same end.
5. That this work is distinctly attested to consciousness, and is abiding in its results.
6. That after this work of cleansing and empowering is wrought, the soul grows, or may grow,
rapidly toward the maturity or perfection of character given us in the experience and life of Christ.
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