Dear Brother Warner, It is now about forty years since, after the most careful and prayerful examination of the Word of God upon the subject, I embraced the views set forth in my work, entitled "Christian Perfection." All my subsequent examinations, and all my observations of facts, from that period to the present, have tended but in one direction-to confirm and render absolute my confidence in the truth and supreme importance of those views. Our Saviour has, Himself, stated definitely the condition on which the world will come to know, that "he came forth from God." "I in them, and thou in...

Most people who have heard something of Finney and his revivals do not realize that he experienced a complete overhaul in his relationship with God in the middle of his ministry. He was converted in 1821 and was used in revivals for the next fifty years perhaps more than any man since the times of the apostle Paul. Yet even though thousands were converted in the early years and displayed the remarkable piety, Finney did not see many converts experience the highest privileges that believers can experience through Jesus Christ. He went to Oberlin in the 1830's and while ministering there with...

During one of Mahan's visits to England he was agitated by the universal practice among English clergymen appealing to sinners to be passive about salvation with absurd necessarian notions of inability. After some twenty years of painstaking reflection and reexamination he gives us this critical exposition of one of the most misunderstood chapters of the bible. There is no element of bitterness or unkindness in his opposition to this contrary system as has been the case with many anti-Calvinists; nor is there any lack of appreciation for the piety of people that held to such systems. Mahan...