Salvation is something past, something present, and something future; a past fact, justification; a present process, sanctification; a future consummation, redemption and glory. David, in Ps. 51:1, 2, prays not only that God will blot out his transgressions (justification), but that God will wash him thoroughly from his iniquity (sanctification). E. G. Robinson: “Sanctification consists _negatively_, in the removal of the penal consequences of sin from the moral nature; _positively_, in the progressive implanting and growth of a new principle of life.... The Christian church is a succession of copies of the character of Christ. Paul never says: ‘_be ye imitators of me_’ (_1 Cor. 4:16_), except when writing to those who had no copies of the New Testament or of the Gospels.” Clarke, Christian Theology, 366—“Sanctification does not mean perfection reached, but the progress of the divine life toward perfection. Sanctification is the Christianizing of the Christian.” It is not simply deliverance from the penalty of sin, but the development of a divine life that conquers sin. A. A. Hodge, Popular Lectures, 343—“Any man who thinks he is a Christian, and that he has accepted Christ for justification, when he did not at the same time accept him for sanctification, is miserably deluded in that very experience.” This definition implies: (_a_) That, although in regeneration the governing disposition of the soul is made holy, there still remain tendencies to evil which are unsubdued. _John 13:10_—“_He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit_ [_i. e._, as a whole]”; _Rom. 6:12_—“_Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof_”—sin _dwells_ in a believer, but it _reigns_ in an unbeliever (C. H. M.). Subordinate volitions in the Christian are not always determined in character by the fundamental choice; eddies in the stream sometimes run counter to the general course of the current. This doctrine is the opposite of that expressed in the phrase: “the essential divinity of the human.” Not culture, but crucifixion, is what the Holy Spirit prescribes for the natural man. There are two natures in the Christian, as Paul shows in _Romans 7_. The one flourishes at the other’s expense. The vine dresser has to cut the rank shoots from self, that all our force may be thrown into growing fruit. Deadwood must be cut out; living wood must be cut back (_John 15:2_). Sanctification is not a matter of course, which will go on whatever we do, or do not do. It requires a direct superintendence and surgery on the one hand, and, on the other hand a practical hatred of evil on our part that coöperates with the husbandry of God.