Partial Consecration and Full Consecration:
PT. 1977, Page 90 par. 29;
By causing others through the Word to become tentatively justified, these servants have figuratively fathered such into partial consecrations, consecrations to righteousness (comp. F 124, 125). These consecrations are not to be confused with full consecrations, which in the Gospel-Age proper made full consecrators into Spirit-begotten new creatures and which since 1881 additionally have made many others Spirit-enlightened, non-Spirit-begotten fully consecrated ones.
Par. Volume 6 Page 124, 125
In the Levitical types two consecrations are distinctly shown: (1) the general consecration of all Levites; (2) a special consecration of the few Levites who were sacrificers or priest. The first represents the general consecration to holy living and obedience to God which all believers make, and which by God's grace, through Christ, accomplishes for them, tentatively, "justification of life" and peace with God. This is what all true believers understand and experience in this age. But the Apostle explains, "the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heard" (1 Tim 1: 5); that is to say, God foresees that our compliance with our first consecration, our compliance with the terms of our justification during the present age will in its end, lead us up to the second consecration as priests for sacrifice.
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