12. After this we say, “Hallowed be Thy name;” not that we wish for God that He may be hallowed by our prayers, but that we beseech of Him that His name may be hallowed in us. But by whom is God sanctified, since He Himself sanctifies? Well, because He says, “Be ye holy, even as I am holy,”32    Lev. xx. 7. we ask and entreat, that we who were sanctified in baptism may continue in that which we have begun to be. And this we daily pray for; for we have need of daily sanctification, that we who daily fall away may wash out our sins by continual sanctification. And what the sanctification is which is conferred upon us by the condescension of God, the apostle declares, when he says, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor deceivers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such indeed were you; but ye are washed; but ye are justified; but ye are sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.”33    1 Cor. vi. 9. He says that we are sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God. We pray that this sanctification may abide in us and because our Lord and Judge warns the man that was healed and quickened by Him, to sin no more lest a worse thing happen unto him, we make this supplication in our constant prayers, we ask this day and night, that the sanctification and quickening which is received from the grace of God may be preserved by His protection.

XII. Post hoc dicimus: SANCTICETUR NOMEN TUUM. Non quod optemus Deo ut sanctificetur orationibus 0527A nostris, sed quod petamus ab eo ut nomen ejus sanctificetur in nobis. Caeterum a quo Deus sanctificatur, qui ipse sanctificat? Sed quia ipse dixit: Sancti estote, quoniam et ego sanctus sum (Lev. II, 44), id petimus et rogamus, ut, qui in Baptismo sanctificati sumus, in eo quod esse coepimus perseveremus. Et hoc quotidie deprecamur. Opus est enim nobis quotidiana sanctificatione, ut, qui quotidie delinquimus, delicta nostra sanctificatione assidua repurgemus. Quae autem sit sanctificatio quae nobis de Dei dignatione confertur Apostolus praedicat dicens: Neque fornicarii, neque idolis servientes, neque adulteri, neque molles, neque masculorum appetitores, neque fures, neque fraudulenti, neque ebriosi, neque maledici, neque raptores regnum Dei consequentur . Et haec 0527B quidem fuistis; sed abluti estis, sed justificati estis, sed sanctificati estis in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi et in Spiritu Dei nostri (I Cor. VI, 9-11). Sanctificatos nos dicit in nomine Domini Jesu Christi et in Spiritu Dei nostri. Haec sanctificatio ut in nobis permaneat oramus. Et quia Dominus et judex noster sanato a se et vivificato comminatur jam non delinquere, ne quid ei deterius fiat, hanc continuis orationibus precem facimus, hoc diebus ac noctibus postulamus, ut sanctificatio et vivificatio quae de Dei gratia sumitur ipsius protectione servetur.