Category: Purity and Maturity

TRUST, the reader has not found much on the foregoing pages that are objectionable or that has not commended itself to his judgment as truth, duty, or Christian privilege. This…

In this chapter, we will give a summary of the most important truths presented in the foregoing pages. 1. Man by reason of sin, original and actual, has become both…

The remains of pride, unbelief, and all the various lusts existing in the merely regenerate, — struggle fearfully at times to regain their lost dominion over the heart, and these…

LIFE, purity, and maturity, these three prominent facts stand forth in Bible teaching as distinct. A proper regard for these distinctions would have saved the Church from much of her…

PURITY is not a question of time; growth in grace is. Believers are delivered from inbred sin at all periods after their regeneration — from one day to scores of…

The fact that inbred sin is a unit, “an evil principle still infecting our nature,” as Dr. Hodge of Princeton calls it, is proof that we cannot obtain freedom from…

The opinion has become somewhat prevalent among Christian people that deliverance from indwelling sin — a state of purity of heart — can be obtained by the ordinary process of…

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”—1 Corinthians 7:1 Those who chiefly composed…

“IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.” — 1 John 1:9. This text clearly makes…

CHRISTIAN PURITY, as the great evangelical fact of holiness — the extirpation of all sin in principle from the soul, or the absence of all pollution in the heart of…