Holy, but not holy altogether

This whole argument, If he is clean, he is clean, and, If he is holy, he is holy, and 20 more expressions of the same kind, which may easily be heaped together, is really no better than playing upon words. It is the fallacy of arguing from a particular case to a general one, of drawing a general conclusion from particular premises. State the sentence in full, and it runs thus. If he is holy at all, he is holy altogether. That does not follow. Every babe in Christ is holy, and yet not altogether so. He is saved from sin, yet not entirely. It remains, though it does not reign.

If you think it does not remain, in babes at least, whatever may be the case with young men or with fathers, you have certainly not considered the height, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth, of the law of God. That law is the law of love, laid down by Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. And every lawlessness, every disconformity to this law, or deviation from it, is sin. Now, is there no such disconformity in the heart or the life of a believer? What may be true of an adult Christian is another question. But what a stranger to human nature a person must be, who can imagine that this is the case with every babe in Christ.