Of Sanctification (6)

In order to have some understanding of this difficult problem, it is necessary to place ourselves before the question: what is man as man, irrespective of the influences and changes wrought by sin and grace? These last mentioned changes, we must never forget, are of a spiritual, ethical character. And in and through all these changes man remains man. He is man in the state of rectitude. He remains man when he falls. And he is still man when he is regenerated through the Spirit of Christ. In...