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Be Holy: God’s Invitation to Understand, Declare, and Experience Holiness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Holiness is an essential characteristic of the nature of God and is a central doctrine to The Wesleyan Church and many other denominations. Yet this doctrine has decayed in recent decades and is in danger of being lost as a central focus of Wesleyan Theology. This volume offers a fresh look at the essential doctrine of holiness, tracing the development of holiness in both biblical Testaments,...

of inward religion,” hence, “the religion of the heart now appeared to me in a stronger light than ever it had done before.”2 The Oxford Methodists not only read these books, they emulated their doctrine and practices. In 1729 Charles read Henry Scougal’s devotional work The Life of God in the Soul of Man. He subsequently loaned the book to fellow Holy Club member George Whitefield, and it became the instrument of Whitefield’s evangelical conversion. In that book, Charles met with what would be his
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