Views of Sanctification

By Rev. Charles G. Finney

Chapter 3

The distinction between entire and permanent Sanctification.

That a thing or a person may be for the time being wholly consecrated to God, and afterwards desecrated or diverted from that service, is certain. That Adam and "the angels who kept not their first estate" were entirely sanctified and yet not permanently so, is also certain.

By permanent sanctification, I understand then a state not only of entire but of perpetual, unending consecration to God.