His walk and conversation will then be very different from his former course of life, when he willingly served sin and Satan, indulged his evil desir… - Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge

We are chosen “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,-through sanctification of the Spirit;” and this sanctification, it is a comfort to know, is a sanctification we may safely confide in; because it is widely different from the self-sanctification, the fleshly holiness, or wilful separation, to which “he that runneth,” and “he that willeth,” addicts himself, in order that the idol self may be magnified and worshipped.

Every thing that is around us strives to draw us away from the true faith.

Let each of us hear this letter with the conviction that it is addressed especially to him; let him say in his heart, All this is for me.