his views from the prevailing mainline Reformed tradition and, together with the insights into relationships between holiness and love that he gleaned from writers like Thomas à Kempis, William Law, and Jeremy Taylor, became the heartbeat and life of his ministry and of the teaching that he adopted. The concept “faith working by love,” as the ultimate hermeneutic for understanding God’s entire plan of salvation, strongly shaped his teachings on sanctification. The “royal law of love” defined God’s