Entire Sanctification (Instantaneously Known)

Hi all. The reason I'm posting these blogs about sanctification is because I think it is soooooo important and soooooo lacking in the church. Although you may think you believe in "sanctification," my experience tells me that you may not understand what sanctification really means and you may not be able to support your position. Now you may say, "you don't even know who I am!" True, but once again, in my experience it makes no difference who you are. The result is usually the same: they're willing to say they believe sanctification, but at the same time they say it is impossible while we're on earth. (I gotta admit it, I'm having a blast being so blunt with you. I'm calling you out and I don't even know you!!)

Dr. Adam Clarke: "We are to come to God for an instantaneous and complete purification from all sin, as for instantaneous pardon. In no part of the Scriptures are we directed to seek the remission of sins seriatim--one now and another then, and so on. Neither in any part are we directed to seek holiness by gradation. Neither a gradation pardon nor a gradation purification exists in the Bible. . . .And as it is this moment our duty to love God with all our heart, and we cannot do this till He cleanse our hearts, consequently He is ready to do it this moment, because He wills that we should in this moment love Him. . . . This moment, therefore, we may be emptied of sin, filled with holiness, and become truly happy" (Clarke's Theology, p. 208)

Dr. George Peck: "It will be remembered that we have found sanctification to imply both the death of sin and the life of righteousness. And when we speak of entire sanctification, as to the former part of it, we say it may be attained at once--it is an instantaneous work. . . . But in relation to the latter part of this great work, viz., the life of righteousness, embracing all holy affections and pious efforts, it is regarded as entirely progressive. . . . The destruction of sin in the soul, and the growth of holiness, are two distinct things. . . . The one is instantaneous, the other gradual; and hence it is that we sometimes say, with propriety, that the work of entire sanctification is both gradual and instantaneous." (Christian Perfection, p. 212)

Rev. J. a. Wood: "Purity being God's work, and being by faith, is evidence that it is instantaneous, the same same as its kindred blessings--pardon, adoption, and regeneration.
"The sinner, convicted of his guilt, believes in Christ for pardon, and is forgiven freely and fully. The christian, convicted of impurity, believes in Christ for holiness, and his heart is made pure, entirely and instantaneously.
"The commands, exhortations, and promises of the Bible teach that purity is instantaneous. God desires, commands, and expects instant obedience. This cannot be done if holiness is not instantaneous. God's command, 'Be ye holy,' plainly requires present holiness; 'Be ye filled with the Spirit,' 'Be ye therefore perfect,' enjoins perfection today. 'This is the will of God, even your sanctification,' means now. 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,' is a command enforcing perfect love today, if it means anything. Just as surely as God desires and commands us now to 'be holy,' now to 'be perfect,' now 'to be filled with the Spirit' and now to 'love him with all our hearts,' so surely is sin's destruction and heart purification instantaneous.
"One act of sin by Adam instantly corrupted human nature. Is it not reasonable to believe that Christ, our second Adam, can as instantly purify the soul when He is fully trusted to do it. Could Adam do in an instant, in corrupting the soul, what it must take our Lord Jesus Christ a lifetime to undo, and call in death in the end, as some think, to complete the work?" (Perfect Love, pp. 90-92)