published, and today the book is more timely than ever. All the erroneous notions Ryle confronted still flourish among evangelicals. Wrong notions about sanctification are still frustrating believers in their quest for genuine practical holiness. And that is why this superb nineteenth-century work is still a fitting antidote to much of what ails mainstream evangelicalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century.9 Ryle’s Holiness is a classic devotional work on progressive sanctification, but