Are the Holiness authours trying to say that the only real kind of sanctification is this “entire sanctification”?
Certainly not, as this passage by Carradine makes clear: “SANCTIFICATION; ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION. It is true that holiness people make these two terms synonymous in their conversations, but do not in their mind. In the first part of this chapter we used simply the word “sanctification,” over against “consecration,” but this was for convenience and brevity’s sake. The Scripture recognizes a partial, and also a complete or entire sanctification. Just as the Bible tells of a state of love, and another of perfect love; of blessings and “the fullness of the blessing;” so does it teach that we can be sanctified in part, and again that we can be sanctified wholly. This does not argue any imperfection or incompleteness upon the part of God, but it is rather a mark or indication of the progress or extent of his work.
