PAGE SEPARATION UNTO GOD 1 LEGAL CLEANSING: SANCTIFICATION THROUGH BLOOD 14 THE CLEANSING BLOOD 27 PERSONAL HOLINESS: THE SANCTIFIED 40 PROGRESS 50 INFECTION OF NATURE 64 GRACE 78 HOLINESS THROUGH FAITH 91 CONSECRATION 103 PRAYER 117 GOD’S NAME SANCTIFIED 132 EXPOSITORY NOTES: ROMANS, VII. 143 1 JOHN, III. 6 146 THE WORD ‘PERFECT’ 149 TEMPTATION, HEB. IV. 15 152 DOCTRINAL NOTES 154 SEPARATION UNTO GOD. ‘Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.’—1 PET. i. 2. It is one of the encouraging features of the present day that many of the Lord’s people are aiming at a higher standard of Christian holiness than they have ever yet known, and are looking to the great grace of their most blessed Saviour to raise them by His Spirit above the various hindrances which have hitherto impeded their progress. They desire that there should be no impediment in the service of their blessed Saviour. In their worship they would draw very near to Him, and in their life they would glorify His name. But yet, when they seek to do so, and when they fairly look at God’s character, God’s claims, God’s will, and God’s glory, they find reason to be humbled to the dust; and the more they realize His infinite mercy in Christ Jesus, the more they learn of the magnitude and multitude of their own shortcomings. Thus it sometimes comes to pass that in many true believers their greatest discouragements are intimately connected with their efforts after holiness, and many of their doubts and difficulties arise from their real desire for true sanctification. The more that they aim at the holiness of God, the more they feel their sin, and the more earnestly that they strive to rise, the more keenly do they feel the pain and humiliation of the ruin of their fallen nature. It is important therefore for those who desire holiness to look carefully into the teaching of Scripture on the great subject of Sanctification; to examine what is really promised, and to learn what the Word of God teaches us to expect. Does it, or does it not, make