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THE SANCTIFIED

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 26.

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THE SANCTIFIED.

HERE, in twenty particulars, is William Secker’s description of the characteristics of sanctified men and women:—
  1. Sanctified Christians do much good, and make but little noise.
  2. They bring up the bottom of their life to the top of their light.
  3. They prefer the duty they owe to God to the danger they fear from man.
  4. They seek the public good of others above the private good of themselves.
  5. They have the most beautiful conversation among the blackest persons.
  6. They choose the worst sorrow rather than commit the least sin.
  7. They become as fathers to all in charity, and as servants to all in humility.
  8. They mourn most before God for their lusts which appear least before men.
  9. They keep their hearts lowest when God raises their estates highest.
  10. They seek to be better inwardly in their substance than outwardly in appearance.
  11. They are grieved more at the distress of the church than affected at their own happiness.
  12. They render the greatest good for the greatest evil.
  13. They take those reproofs best which they need most.
  14. They take up duty in point of performance, and lay it down in point of independence.
  15. They take up their contentment in God’s appointment.
  16. They are more in love with the employment of holiness than with the enjoyment of happiness.
  1. They are more employed in searching their own hearts than in censuring other men’s states.
  2. They set out for God at the beginning, and hold out with him to the end.
  3. They take all the shame of their sins to themselves, and give all the glory of their services to Christ.
  4. They value a heavenly reversion above an earthly possession.
If we hold up that as a mirror, do we see ourselves reflected in it?—King’s Highway.