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sanctification; for in both cases a believer testifies to a work consciously wrought in him by the power of the Holy Spirit. Fancy and fanaticism are deeply seated in human nature. Nevertheless, experience is experience. Unless Methodists have wholly misread the Bible, it teaches the working of the mighty power of God in human souls. If it is a reality, we cannot but know it. If it is a delusion, let us give up at once and forever the contention that religion is the life of God in the soul of man, and deny that men are partakers of the divine nature. When freed from self-deception and the possible admixtures of error imposed from without by traditional formulas, in the light of which another seeks to lead the subject of experience to explain it, experience stands in the soul itself for indisputable reality -- otherwise all the personal religious foundations are gone. If there are not verifiable certainties of Christian experience, Methodism has been from the beginning a stupendous blunder. The late Dr. R. W. Dale, in his "Living Christ and the Four Gospels," gives a vivid picture of the dissipation of a Christian scholar's doubts by a plain man's experience. The learned divine leaves his study and finds his way to a humble home where "he sits by the side of some poor, aged, and illiterate man, whose strength is slowly wasting, and the conditions of whose life are very cheerless; but the old man had traveled by the same path that all the saints have traveled. As the scholar listened, he could recall, at point after point, identical experiences of his own. It was as if the man were telling the story of years which he had spent in some foreign country which the scholar also had visited. They had seen the same cities and harbors and churches and palaces, the same ruins, the same mountains and rivers, the same crops, the same trees and flowers. The old man's account of them was very different from what his own account would have been, the old man's theories and explanations of them and his own were still more different, but it was certain that what he had seen the old man had seen." The doctrinal rather than the experimental presentation of Christian truth has characterized for the most part the method of theologians. To this rule, John Wesley, as in so many other particulars, was a noteworthy exception: in few other things have his wisdom and independence, his common sense and courage, been more conspicuously displayed. The Christian consciousness, with its well-defined peculiarities, of which many German theologians since Schleiermacher's day have made so much -- some of them seeking to draw the entire system of dogmatics from this source -- had in Wesley's time been ignored or underestimated. As in many questions of Biblical criticism, both as to method and results, the founder of Methodism anticipated some of the most recent advances of the highest scholarship -- compare his text emendations and translations in his "Notes on the New Testament" with the Revised Version of 1881 -- so he was one of the earliest theologians and religious teachers to draw attention to the doctrinal as well as the practical value of religious experience, and to insist on the evidential value of the Christian consciousness. Every thoughtful reader of that most marvelous record of apostolic activities outside the Holy Scriptures, Wesley's Journal, must have been struck with the confirmation of his own faith which John Wesley derived from the experiences of the people called Methodists whom God raised up under his ministry. Dr. Brooks seems to me to have kept in the main to the well-defined truths of Wesleyan orthodoxy on the subject of entire sanctification. He is not only Wesleyan, but, what is better, he is scriptural, devoting his first eleven chapters to "the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Whatever be the advance in modern forms of statement, it is necessary to allow that the essential, delivering truths of the gospel have been recognized in their true light, and realized in their appointed power, since
the gospel was first preached. Redemption by "price" and by "power," by the Saviour and by the Sanctifier; pardon and purity; satisfaction and sanctity; oblation and obedience: these have been the polar truths of the gospel in all ages and lands. To the advancement of these truths, the volume in the hands of the reader is dedicated. To the large class of ministers and laymen, who have not committed themselves, on the one extreme, to wholesale rejection and indiscriminate denunciation of the doctrine and the experience, or, on the other, to an intolerant disdain of calm and considerate discussion and criticism, this book ought to give light and leading. To multitudes of private disciples and sincere souls, humble inquirers after the way of life, the subject is fascinating. They need to inquire wisely and thoroughly in such vital concerns. John J. Tigert Nashville, 31 January, 1899 *************************************
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Dr. Mudge would explain the case of
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Truth and candor require admissions
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his theory and ours seems to be tha
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that time. In a letter to the write
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Dr. Steele continues: "That the Eng
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these Paul is believed to teach tha
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prayers; remembering without ceasin
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3. The use of the aorist indicates
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in their history, indicated by the
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then adds, "that we might receive t
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We have purposely omitted many pass
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In controverting the above, Dr. Gor
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It would seem from the foregoing th
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this "renewal," "sanctification," o
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standards on this subject." And we
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Bishop Ninde comes the nearest to t
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the man whom the Rev. Dr. D. C. Kel
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Peter's case illustrates the meanin
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consciousness of repentance; (3) co
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Let the doubting reader weigh well
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We are profoundly convinced that th
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witnesses, to testify, not merely f
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divinely inspired, is but the Bible
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give many passages of his writings
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The same test was applied to regene
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Again he says: "Not trusting to the
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As late as 1768 he writes a friend,
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I now obey it, and tell you all, to
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We, for a time, turn from Methodist
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"Since that resignation spoken of b
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ethren of the High Life -- all thes
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Kirk, in his lectures on Revivals,
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"It was on the 23d of April, 1822,
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to me to be the witness of the Holy
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day in the Congregational Church. T
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about the truth of the gospel, and
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the shadow of one of those doubts w
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purpose than I did ... For eighteen
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"How has it been with me since?" Th
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We note the usual expressions of th
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"Never shall I forget the astonishm
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"And now, if I am asked what is my
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7. That she was not backslidden whe
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We only stress certain points: 1. H
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unbroken communion with him that th
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"The weary burden grew heavier with
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doctrine of sanctification by faith
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"I do not find this life -- what in
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In commenting on the foregoing expe
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service, the whole membership were
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temperance and social purity than a
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After telling of his going to a cam
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lay my head upon my pillow until I
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"I have said enough; the half I hav
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"A meeting commenced in my church.
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itter opposition on the part of oth
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But other physicians and patients a
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God. Sons are born into his family
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"What is meant and what is true is
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I strong" in God, because "the powe
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that while a man's heart is right w
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Before leaving this point we would
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we need the work of regeneration at
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shrink from the awful mystery and t
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the truth of his teaching concernin
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supposed. I was conscious of feelin
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In speaking of the love which resul
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chapter, calls "carnal" and "babes
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dedication of the temple, and is, "
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2. Does sanctification eradicate or
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meaning here seems vague. However,
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(3) Another reason is the greater u
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"'Then kneel right down here and pr
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Presbyterian minister's wife, who h
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Pentecost came after our Lord's ful
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wondrous love, ought it not to make
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is, however, more or less of strife
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may see what Israel needs, and then
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President Finney made the same comp
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teacher with power to teach his or
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whole spirit, and soul, and body be
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filth" -- hence that it needs no fo
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