Perfect Sanctification : An Article From the Princeton Review for July, 1842
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In chap.i. ver. 8, he tells us " If we say that we have no sin," (as some pretended that all their actions as believers were pure,) " we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." In the language of the New Testament, the affirmation that the truth is not in one, seems to be the same as saying that he is not a real Chris- tian. Paul speaks of men of " corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth," that is, devoid of the Christian spirit, or of evangelical piety. John in the 2d chapter of this... epistle, uses the same phrase. "He that saith I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Elsewhere the same apostle speaks of the truth as being in Christians, as dwelling in them ; and them he represents as walkers in the truth. Thus he teaches us that the boast of perfection indicates not superior sanctity, but gross self ignorance, or intentional falsehood, and a desti- tution of the genuine traits of the Christian character. In chap. iii. ver. 3, he says, "and every one that hath this hope 25 in him purifieth himself even as he is pure." Macknight has the following note on this passage.
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