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2. Second experience distinct from the first. Not accounted
for by supposing deception in the first. Nor return
from backsliding. The true solution. Experimental appre-
hension of the way of sanctification by faith.

3. Instantaneous. Why. Not always marked.

4. Harmonies and differences between Lutherans, Wesleyans,

and Oberlinians.

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CONTENTS.

CHRIST ALL-SUFFICIENT, AND FAITH ALL-INCLUSIVE,.

The analogies of First and Second experience. Differences.

CHRIST ALL. A SON OF THE PROPHETS AT A SCHOOL OF THE

PROPHETS. Legal struggles. Covenants. Vows. Failures.
Conversation with a fellow-student. Conviction. Agony.
Deliverance. Takes Christ as all. Great Joy. FAITH TWO-
FOLD. ALL-INCLUSIVE. Gives all. Takes all. AN EMINENT
LADY. Her fruitless attempts to take salvation without con-
secrating all to God. Her success when she consecrates all.
A MERCHANT. His vain attempts to gain all by consecration
without taking Christ as a sanctifying Saviour. His success
when he trusts all to Christ.

CHAPTER III.

STOPPED IN THE WAY. BY WHAT?.....

God arrests by the burning bush. Man conjures up difficul-

ties. Difficult to arouse the Christian to see what God has in

store for him. ABRAHAM's two stages in the way to Canaan.

CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Shrunk back after their deliverance from

Egypt. Afraid to enter Canaan.

Difficulties-1. FEAR OF THE BRAND Gen. Havelock.

2. FEAR OF HERESY. Danger. A SHAKERESS. Was once the wife
of an excellent minister. False principle of interpretation.
Millerite views. Met a Shakeress. Fascinated. Warning.
3. RELUCTANCE TO GIVE UP THE WORLD, False reasonings.
4. ASCETIC VIEWS OF RELIGION. The temptations and dis-
tortions of Satan. BLINDNESS OF MIND THROUGH UNBELIEF.

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unpopular reforms to humble himself. Then to change of
habits and to hard work for religion. Next to prayer to be
made holy. Finally in despair saw in the contrast Seventh
and Eighth of Romans. Christ the way. Happiness. Re-
vival.

CONTENTS.

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