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

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.

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

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.