yet he was not sanctified wholly. But he had a vision of the Lord
upon His Throne, and the seraphims crying one to another: "Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His
glory." And the very "posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried"; and how much more should the heart of the prophet be
moved! And so it was; and he cried out: "Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the
King, the Lord of Hosts."

When unsanctified men have a vision of God, it is not their lack
of power, but their lack of purity, their unlikeness to Christ,
the Holy One, that troubles them. And so it was with the prophet.
But he adds: "Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged." Here again, it is purity rather than power to which our
attention is directed.

Again, in the thirty-sixth chapter of Ezekiel, we have another
type of this spiritual baptism. In Isaiah the type was that of
fire, but here it is that of water; for water and oil, and the
wind and rain and dew, are all used as types of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord says, through Ezekiel: "Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and
from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I
give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take
away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an