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SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION:
An
Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem
By The
Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D.
NOTE
Like the psalmist and the apostle, the author may say, "We believed, and therefore have we
spoken," in the following pages. For this book is born of a profound conviction that the theory
therein propounded and elaborated is the truth of God. And such conviction has come not only from
a prayerful study of his Word, accompanied by a personal and experimental test of this interpretation,
but also from the tests of many other reliable witnesses who testify from their experience of its truth.
In presenting this theory to others the author has tried not to dogmatize, but has constantly sought
to give scriptural proofs and experimental facts in support of every position taken. And he trusts the
reader will not reject his theory simply because he cannot accept the author's interpretation of any
particular passage of Scripture, or because he fails to feel the force of the testimony given by any
particular witness. For half his interpretations may be wrong and a good number of these testimonies
may be faulty, and yet the theory still stand firm, being buttressed by other sound exegesis and valid
testimony.
For reasons noted in the introductory chapter, the volume has grown far beyond the limits
originally assigned it by the author, but he trusts that it will be none the less acceptable or useful on
that account. It is hoped, too, that the steel engraving will not prove unacceptable to the author's
former parishioners, if it should not be prized by others.
The book falls far below the author's ideal; but, with all its defects, and with an earnest desire to
promote the glory of God and the good of men, after many drawbacks in its preparation, and much
delay in its publication, it is prayerfully sent forth on its mission of love.
John R. Brooks
Salisbury, N. C., 13 February, 1899
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