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The above is in harmony with the prophecy of Ezekiel, that God, by putting his "Spirit within" us, would "cause," or constrain, or help us to walk in "his statutes," and "keep his judgments, and do them." "The beautiful vignette of a cross grasped by a hand, with the motto underneath, Teneo et teneor -- 'I hold fast, and am held fast' -- expresses the thought. There is no other way of maintaining the higher life. It is a rest in Christ. It is the "rest of faith." As bearing on the questions discussed in this chapter, as well as on the general subject of this book, we most earnestly recommend that the reader procure some or all of the following books: Dr. Steele's Love Enthroned, Milestone Papers, Defense of Christian Perfection, Half Hours with St. Paul, The Gospel the Comforter; Dr. Keen's Pentecostal Papers, Salvation Papers, Faith Papers, Praise Papers; Hills' Holiness and Power; Gordon's Twofold Life and Ministry of the Spirit; McNeil's Spirit-Filled Life; McDonald's Scripture Way of Holiness and Saved to the Uttermost; <strong>Sanctification</strong>; and Smith's Christian's Secret of a Happy Life. The writings of Andrew Murray and F. B. Meyer are also helpful. While we cannot endorse all that is in the above-named books, we can in the main approve them. If one wishes to look farther into the testimony from experience, let him get Harrison's Forty Witnesses and Inskip's Holiness Miscellany. *************************************
SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION: An Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem By The Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D. Chapter 25 CONCLUDING APPEAL In the preceding chapters we have tried to show that there is something better for Christians than what they, as a rule, received at regeneration. We have tried to show, too, that this blessing may come soon after conversion, if not realized at that time. Also that, while we may gradually grow into the frame of mind or state of heart out of which sanctifying faith springs, yet the subjective work of sanctification -- the baptism which brings unmixed purity and perfect instantaneous, being followed, however, on condition of continued consecration and faithfulness, by more rapid growth in objective holiness -- improvement in thought, action, and life. We would devote these closing pages to an earnest appeal to our readers to reduce to practice the lessons we have sought to give. 1. Our appeal is to the pulpit, our brethren of the ministry, with whom we have a fellow-feeling, and in whom and in whose success we feel a profound interest. We are persuaded that ministers of all Churches agree substantially with Andrew Murray, that throughout the Church of Christ there is universal complaint of the feebleness of the Christian life, and that there are tens of thousands of souls longing to know how to lead a better life. They find in God's word promises of perfect peace, of a faith that overcomes the world, of a joy that is unspeakable, of a life of ever-abiding communion with Christ, hidden in the hollow of God's hand, and in the secret of his pavilion. But, alas! thousands say they know not how to obtain it. (1) We ask, who are to point these feeble and fainting thousands to the true Source of their spiritual refreshment and strength, but those who are specially called to this work of the ministry? And who can so successfully lead these hungry and thirsty souls beside the still waters and into the green pastures of full salvation as those who have themselves drunk of these waters and tried these pastures? Can one effectively testify to the value of what he has not himself tried? Can any one carry a soul on his faith and prayers farther into the kingdom of grace, into the experience of salvation, either at his conversion or afterwards, than he himself has gone? Has a defective faith or a low experience the procreative energy and the reproductive power that a perfect faith or an experience of full salvation has? Has the faith of a servant, or even that of a son, the power to reproduce itself in the lives of others as has the faith of a fellow -- the faith of one that has uninterrupted communion and full fellowship with God? Where was the missionary spirit of Judaism? Why were the spiritual results that followed the preaching of the apostles before Pentecost so meager? Why the wonderful manifestation of power on that day under the ministry of Peter, producing, it is believed, greater spiritual results than had followed the ministry of our Lord and all the apostles and other disciples up to that time? Why did Jesus urge the apostles to tarry at Jerusalem until Pentecost, assuring them that after that time they could do greater works than he had done? Why was the ministry of Wesley, and Caughey, and
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WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library Holiness
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were hostile to the "second blessin
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the gospel was first preached. Rede
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with tongue and pen as if in the gr
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extravagances of some unbalanced mi
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all depravity in this life, and tha
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elief of the truth." Peter tells th
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"separate and consecrate," and to h
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"Strengthened with might by His Spi
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mind" -- are removed and nothing is
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Job was one of the finest character
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Peacemaker. Hence, probably, peace
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given before. And yet, as all admit
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(2) There seems to be today a large
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It is believed, however, that there
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The ignorant and captious part of t
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to what Joel prophesied about. The
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the Spirit that had been promised b
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"An influential and constantly incr
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pollution, and weakness, as well as
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Now, with these concessions and exp
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a fuller measure of the Spirit when
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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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