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    CONCLUSION

    Dear reader, we have now briefly noticed some of the leading features of sanctification, and have seen some of the advantages connected with living holiness. And we now ask, Are not the motives to, and the benefits of, sanctification of sufficient importance to induce us to seek for holiness? Do not the beauties of the subject invite us? Is there not a solid satisfaction in being Godlike and Christlike, and answering to the objects for which we were made? Are not the glory of God, our own happiness and usefulness, the happiness and usefulness of others, the punishment of the unholy, the blessings that the holy enjoy here in living holiness, and the rich and glorious reward that awaits them hereafter, sufficient to prompt us to live holy lives? The pleasures of sin are fading. They are but for a season and end in death. In the language of the poet,SLH 127.3

    “Each pleasure hath its poison too, And every sweet a snare.”SLH 128.1

    But the pleasures of holiness are real, and will never fade. They will last as long as eternity lasts. In attending to sanctification we are preparing for the society of the holy in the world to come. But if God-like natures and heavenly contemplations and practices are repugnant to us here, what should we do among the inhabitants of the celestial abodes? “Wake up, brother, wake up sister, Seek, O seek that holy state; None but holy ones can enter Through the pure, celestial gate.”SLH 128.2

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