The Meaning of Sanctification

By Charles Ewing Brown


Table of Contents

  Title Page
  Back Cover
  My Testimony by E. Stanley Jones
  Dedication
  Preface
Chapter 1
THE THEORY OF GRADUAL SANCTIFICATION
A Doctrine of Anti-Sanctification Work Without Pay The Doctrine of Gradual Sanctification Demands Purgatory
Chapter 2
INDICATIONS OF A SECOND CRISIS
The Pages of Rock The Ceremony of Confirmation as Evidence The Laymen and the Perfect in the New Testament The Cloud of Many Witnesses Where the Saints Have Trod
Chapter 3
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Rest That Remaineth for God's People Heaven on Earth Begun Marching to Canaan Entering the Holy of Holies
Chapter 4
THE SECOND CRISIS AS CLEANSING
Carnality in Believers
Chapter 5
SIN AS EVIL DISPOSITION
Something Hinders Social Progress Indwelling Sin The Change Made by Adam's Fall The Effect of the Fall The Teaching of the Apostle Paul Consequence and Penalty The Bible Teaches the Doctrine of Inbred Sin
Chapter 6
THE DOCTRINE OF INHERITED SIN
Jewish Teaching in the Apostolic Age How Shall We Think of Inbred Sin? The Meaning of Instinct Instinctive Holiness Can Instinct Be Sinful? Figures of Depravity  Metaphorical Extension of Meaning Inbred Sin as a Root Inbred Sin and Divine Justice Results of the Removal of Inbred Sin
Chapter 7
THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Chapter 8
THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Air as an Emblem of the Spirit The Holy Spirit as Fire The Holy Spirit as Water The Holy Spirit as Oil
Chapter 9
ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION AS A BUNDLE OF POSSIBILITIES
Seek Not the Gift but the Giver Features of the Victorious Life The Baptism of the Holy Ghost Gives Power
Chapter 10
THE MEANING OF HOLINESS
Holy and Most Holy Sanctifying the Holy Things Two Kinds of Things Belong to God No Sinner Can Consecrate Christ Became Accursed for Us Holiness as Moral Purity Justified Christians Ceremonially Holy The Holiness of God Holiness in Human Nature Perfect Love The Meaning of Love Is Entire Sanctification a Gift or an Attainment?
Chapter 11
HOW IS ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION RECEIVED?
Are There Two Conditions? Consecration for Entire Sanctification How Shall the Holy Be Sanctified? Present Your Bodies Dangers of Repeating Consecration The Problem of Reconsecration The Fundamental Decision Calls for Many Smaller Decisions Forms of Consecration Form of Consecration for Holiness Consecration as Investment The Faith That Accepts Holiness
Appendix
APPENDIX
The Thirty Texts of Wesley Are We Saved to the Uttermost? Paul's Exhortation to the Ephesians The Tense Readings of the Greek New Testament