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SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION:
An
Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem
By The
Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D.
Chapter 20
SOME BAPTIST TESTIMONY
-- DRS. FULLER, JUDSON --
-- GORDON, EARLE, AND LEVY --
While the first three named above do not explicitly testify from their experience, it is believed that
they speak out of their hearts as well as out of the Word.
The well-known Rev. Dr. Richard Fuller says: "It is true that, in subduing our depravities, one act
of faith is worth a whole life of attempted faithfulness. In other words, that "one act of faith," brings
the baptism of purity and power, does more toward destroying or subduing our depravity than "a
whole life of attempted faithfulness" in trying to grow into this deliverance.
That distinguished and saintly missionary, the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., says: "Renounce the
world, renounce thyself, and flee into his loving arms, which are open to receive thee. Angels will
rejoice over thy second conversion as they did over thy first. Thou wilt begin to live in a new world,
to breathe a new atmosphere, and behold the light of heaven shining upon thee; and thou wilt begin
to love the Lord thy God in a new manner."
Here the condition and results of this second work, this "second experience," the baptism of the
Holy Ghost, which Dr. Judson calls a "second conversion," are strikingly stated. 1. Full surrender
and consecration. "Renounce the world, renounce thyself. 2. Faith: "Flee to his loving arms, which
are open to receive thee." 3. Results: "Thy second conversion" a deeper work of grace -- followed
by a "new world," a "new atmosphere," a "new light, and a "new man" of love.
Dr. Judson's worthy and well-known namesake, the late Rev. Adoniram Judson Gordon, D.D.,
who, a prominent Baptist minister of this state once said to us, is regarded as the soundest divine of
that Church in the North, has left his testimony on record. It is true that he may not have said in so
many words that this was his experience, but he gave it as his opinion that one could thus be saved
by the baptism of the Spirit, and supported his position and illustrated his view with the experience
of others. A good part of his Twofold Life is devoted to work of this kind. In commenting on the
experience of Madame Guyon, he says:
"The fruit of this divine baptism is what it will specially interest us to seek. And this was
immediate and blessed. Will the Spirit that cleanseth us from sinfulness also keep us from sinning?
is a question which is asked with the most painful solicitude by the tempted, oft defeated, and
well-nigh despairing believer. The Scriptures certainly give some very strong and explicit promises
on this point 'Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh,' says the apostle ... 'In
him is no sin; whosoever abideth in him sinneth not,' writes the apostle John. If we were in such