Christian Purity, Or The Heritage of Faith, by Foster [1984].

Used - Very good condition. A couple of stains on the cover, that can be seen in the pictures. Pages are bright and clean with no markings or tears. The binding is decently strong and the spine is not damaged.

L S Foster D.D. 1869 Excerpt:

"...would be the blunder if the farmer should garner his blades He might say it is the same as the corn, since it has the same life as the corn; but that mistake would be disastrous. Content with the blade, he might fail of the corn. The answer to the next question will still further illustrate this point. Is entire sanctification a progressive or instantaneous work? This, like the former question, has been greatly confused by indiscreet words and hasty and crude generalizations. There is no doubt there are irreconcilable positions taken upon it by extreme and unsound partisans, but with patience and candor most Christians will be able, we doubt not, substantially to agree. Regeneration being the terminus a quo, and entire sanctification the terminus ad quern, the question is, Is there progress from one point toward the other, or is it a bound from one instantaneously to the other? This point has been indirectly touched on in another place; we come now to its direct study. That there is growth in holiness, we cannot imagine any Christian doubts. That growth in holiness, from the degree of it imparted in regeneration, is progress toward the completeness of it in entire sanctification, we cannot conceive a Christian understandingly to deny. All real advances along a line in the direction of a point must be approximating the point. The rill that keeps ever widening and deepening is coming to be the river. The river in its flow must be ever nearing the ocean; but the point sought differs from the several points along the line of approach; the rill differs from the river; the river is not the ocean. But there may be, and perhaps is, difference upon this point: May the believer come at once on his journey to the point of complete holiness? All agree that he may progress."