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SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION: An Attempted Solution of the Holiness Problem By The Rev. John R. Brooks, D.D. Chapter 5 THREE TYPES OF PIETY EXIST UNDER THE PRESENT DISPENSATION 1. Because of different degrees of light and grace they existed in different parts of the world in the apostolic age, and do today. The same material sun, during the same year, develops the dwarfed and almost fruitless plant of the frigid zone, the larger, more comely, and more fruitful one of the temperate zone, and the towering, mammoth, and still more fruitful one of the torrid zone. So with the plant of faith and the fruit of righteousness, growing thereon, under the influence of the "Sun of righteousness" in different parts of the world then and now. Under the slanting rays of that Sun, in the dark parts of the earth, the dwarfed plant of faith, that bears the fruit of fear and obedience up to creed, is developed today. Under His directer rays, in more enlightened lands, the larger plant of faith that bears, to some extent, the sweeter fruit of love and peace and joy, is developed. And under the perfectly direct and fructifying rays of that Sun, where a full gospel is preached, the still more vigorous and fruitful plant of faith, on which the rich fruit of love and peace and joy grows to perfection, is developed. Because of the unequal distribution of knowledge and grace, these three spiritual zones, like their natural analogues, may exist and produce this variety of plant and fruit in our day; and for the same reasons they are believed to have existed after Pentecost in different parts of the earth during the apostolic age. 2. For certain reasons these different types of piety are believed to exist in the same country, community, congregation, and family today. (1) Because of wrong or deficient instruction, defective consecration, or weak faith, many professed Christians are to all intents and purposes living today under the dispensation of the Father. They have been taught, both by precept and example, to serve God chiefly if not solely from the motive of fear. They have not been encouraged to expect the Spirit of adoption and assurance, and His fruit of peace and love and joy. Indeed, they have been led to decry experimental godliness and despise "heart religion." They have been more concerned about the "form" than they have about the power of godliness. As a consequence, the ethical predominates over the spiritual -- the moral over the experimental --in their experience and lives. They are dominated by the "spirit of bondage to fear," and look more carefully to works than to faith -- to the external than to the internal life. The better and more conscientious of this class "fear God and work righteousness." Like Cornelius, they are devout, prayerful, and charitable. And if no better training or fuller light has come to them -- if they have diligently sought the light and faithfully lived up to what they received -- we dare not deny that they are, like Cornelius, "accepted" with God. There may be many of this class in all Churches, Romish and Protestant, but, for obvious reasons, there are probably more in ritualistic Churches than in others. The earnest, ill-instructed, and fearful penitent, outside the Church, may fall into this class. He is a "servant of God," under the influence of the law, who falls short of gospel light and faith. His experience seems recorded in the seventh chapter of Romans.
(2) There seems to be today a large class of professed Christians very much like those who lived under the dispensation of the Son, during the ministry of our Lord, especially between His resurrection and Pentecost. They have been brought more fully under the influence of the gospel, and have found "peace with God" through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, to which is added some measure of love and joy. But this peace is often disturbed by doubt and fear. Disquiet and darkness frequently take the place of the light and rest that came at conversion. Joy is not full, and love, especially in the face of temptation, seems mixed with the unChristian tempers or feelings of impatience, anger, malice, envy, etc. They may have longer or shorter seasons of assurance and rest, but the witness of the Spirit is not constant, and their experience of peace is not uniform. human nature -- what seems to be depraved human nature -- often stirs within, and the believer feels that all is not right. It is believed that many, if not quite all, converted people have felt these "motions" of self-will, pride, ill-will, jealousy, and unholy ambition in their hearts. They realize that self too often creeps into their best services and works. And they have mourned and been greatly troubled over these things, and have longed for deliverance. They have experienced a painful sense of weakness, and felt that they did not and could not love God supremely and their fellows unselfishly. While they may have checked and controlled these unholy feelings, and prevented their outward expression in sinful words and deeds, they have realized that all is not right within -- that they were not saved from the feeling of sin. It is feared that the experience and lives of a large proportion of professed Christians do not come up to this standard. Too often they give way to these tempers, and sin in word and deed. They do not have easy and constant victory over self, Satan, and the world. Now, is this the best that there is for the Christian under this glorious dispensation of the Spirit? Does not God's gift of the Holy Ghost bring more to the believer -- the young believer even -- than this? We rejoice to believe and say that it does. (3) For there is another class, who come up to the higher gospel standard of piety and experience -- the standard reached at Pentecost, and that may be reached by all now. With a clearer revelation of their need and of the provision made in the gospel for fully supplying that need, with a more intelligent and unreserved consecration and a stronger faith, they have appropriated the promise of the Spirit in the fullness and richness of His baptismal and transforming grace -- His cleansing and empowering influences. They have been "filled with" and enjoy the abiding presence and influence of the divine Cleanser, Comforter, Strengthener, and Anointer. The wonderful prayer of Paul for the Ephesian Church has been answered in their case, and they are "strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man"; "Christ dwells in their hearts by faith," having been enthroned there; they are "rooted and grounded in love," "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height," "know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge," and have been "filled with all the fullness of God." Being thus "filled" and "rooted" and "grounded" and "strengthened" and established in love, they are enabled to "walk after the Spirit" and have "the righteousness of the law" -- the law of supreme and unselfish love, the law of "perfect love" "fulfilled in them." They are thus saved from the impurity, weakness, doubt, fear, and selfishness that characterize to some extent the experience and lives of the other two classes noticed. Their peace and love and joy are profound, full, and "perfect" -- unmixed with their opposites. There is no mixture of doubt, distressing fear, unbelief, envy, impatience, pride, or other evil tempers. They are saved from the feeling of these things, as well as from their outward expression in word and deed.
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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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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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