They cannot die in this state. They must go backward or forward. If they continue to seek, they will surely find righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. We are confirmed in this belief by the many instances we have seen, of such as these finding peace at the last hour. And it is not impossible, but others may then be made partakers of like precious faith, and yet go hence without giving any outward proof of the change which God hath wrought. Conversation the Fifth. WEDNESDAY, 17. _Q._ 1. HOW much is allowed by our brethren who differ from us, with regard to entire sanctification? _A._ They grant, 1. That every one must be entirely sanctified, in the article of death: 2. That till then, a believer daily grows in grace, comes nearer and nearer to perfection: 3. That we ought to be continually pressing after this and to exhort all others so to do. _Q._ 2. What do we allow them? _A._ We grant, 1. That many of those who have died in the faith, yea, the greater part of those we have known, were not sanctified throughout, not made perfect in love, till a little before death: 2. That the term, “sanctified,” is continually applied by St. _Paul_, to all that were justified, were true believers: 3. That by this term alone, he rarely (if ever) means, saved from all sin: 4. That consequently, it is not proper to use it in this sense, without adding the word “wholly, entirely,” or the like: 5. That the inspired writers almost continually speak of or to those who are justified; but very rarely, either of or to those, who were wholly sanctified: 6. That consequently, it behoves us to speak in public almost continually of the state of justification: but more rarely, in full and explicit terms, concerning entire sanctification. _Q._ 3. What then is the point wherein we divide? _A._ It is this: Whether we should expect to be saved from all sin, before the article of death? _Q._ 4. Is there any clear scripture _promise_ of this? That God will save us from _all_ sin? _A._ There is. _Psalm_ cxxx. 8. _He shall redeem Israel from_ all _his sins_. This is more largely exprest in the prophesy of _Ezekiel_: _Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean; from_ all _your filthiness and from_ all _your idols will I cleanse you――I will also save you from_ all _your uncleannesses_, chapter xxxvi. verse 25. 29. No promise can be more clear. And to this the apostle plainly refers in that exhortation, _Having these promises, let us cleanse ourselves, from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God_. _2 Corinthians_ vii. 1. Equally clear and express is that antient promise, _The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul_. _Deuteronomy_ xxx. 6. _Q._ 5. But does any _assertion_ answerable to this, occur in the new Testament?