non-entertainment, or nurture, of God’s presence. A true convert and one seeking entire sanctification must not do anything which may disappoint the Holy Spirit, so as not to “drive him from us.”185 The true convert was expected to show outward holiness in their actions and works. Wesley distinguished between the instantaneous beginning of faith (instantaneous conversion) and the subsequent continuance, increase, and growth of faith in Wesley’s letter to John Smith on September 28, 1745.186 Similarly,