This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...is our Savior instead of Jesus. 6. The work of heart purity is directly witnessed to by the Holy Spirit, but religious growth is discovered by the mind in its pressing after all the truth of Scripture. God makes a direct attestation to His work both in regeneration and sanctification. Of the converted we read: "The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." Rom. viii. 16. And of the sanctified believer we read: "Them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us."--Heb. x. 14, 15. The old error that bya roundabout process of human discovery, and comparing ourselves with Scripture, we are to find out whether we are converted or sanctified, after being exploded by the early writers of Methodism, is being again adopted by backslidden and unsaved teachers. Isaiah speaks of a sanctifying touch of fire, and a voice that told him directly that he was purged from sin; he says nothing of discovering it by a process of comparison. Paul tells us of an act of God by which Jesus was revealed in him, but he says nothing of finding it out by self-analysis, or comparing himself with the Scripture. After the heart is made pure, God will in his own way communicate the infallible witness of it to the soul. But as growth in grace is largely a human process, depending upon our capacity, zeal and prayerfulness, the Spirit may not bear direct witness to its progress. It is in reference to our fruitfulness and progress that we are to examine and compare ourselves with the waymarks of Scripture. The knowledge that we are made pure, is flashed into us from above; but the knowledge that we are growing in grace is gathered up in the daily lessons, and by the milestones we pass on the...