Special, spiritual, and immortal. That which is represented in Scripture as involved in being a child of God by adoption. Bearing His name. Present fatherly chastisements for our good. Adoption proceeds from the Father, upon the merits of the Son, by the agency of the Holy Spirit.
All believers being subjects of the same adoption, are brethren.
To make clean physically or morally. Regeneration is the creative act of the Holy Spirit, implanting a new principle of spiritual life in the soul. Sanctification is the sustaining and developing work of the Holy Spirit, bringing all the faculties of the soul more and more perfectly under the purifying and regulating principle of spiritual life. The sense in which the body is sanctified. As being the temple of the Holy Spirit.