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