They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord. - 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.

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.

The world and the devil fight against us believers, because we will not wear their mask of hypocrisy, under which gross wickedness may be committed.