an impartation of righteousness and true holiness, makes the error more dangerous. Anything that falls short of an actual cleansing from all sin or the death of the “old man” is anti-Wesleyan and anti-scriptural. The early Arminians wrote much on Christian perfection and their statements contain the germ of that which was later developed in Wesleyanism. For example, Arminius defined holiness as follows: “Sanctification is a gracious act of God by which