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. - Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge

We reject the pharisaical sanctity, which is but a covering of shame, under which sin has free play.

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.

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 desires, and walked after the course of this world.