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Contents

Dedication 2

Foreword 2 Why A New Call? 6 Holiness in New Apparel 8 New Distinctions and Accents 9 A Lasting Legacy and Impress 9 A decline: but why? 10 Eclipsed by bigger issue 10 Harassed by Controversy 10 Divorce from Evangelism 11 Set-backs through Inconsistency 11 Changeful Decades 11 WHAT ABOUT TODAY ? 11 A Shift to the Experiential 12 A Shift from Superficiality 12 Wesley and Booth 13 A Right Approach 16 A Right Approach to Scripture 16 A True View of Sin 17 Regeneration and Renewal 18 Christian Standing and Privilege 20 Fascination with Theory 22 Theory Versus Experience 25 The Eradication Theory 26 Representative Others 27 Present-day Voices 28 The Big Contradiction 29 A Well-Meant Alternative 33 Other Slants and Aspects 36 Counteractionist Dilemma 38 That word, "destroyed" 39 What AboutRomans 6:6? 44 Non-mention of the Holy Spirit 51 Contradicted by Experience 51 A Significant Illustration 52 The Baptismal Burial 52 A Contradictory Misfit 52 New Testament Testimony 53 The "Old Man" Crucified 58 The "Body of Sin" 60 Pauline Usage of the Word 62 Guidance from Context 62 Guidance from the Wording 63 Endorsement by Parallel 63 Galatians 2:20 64 Galatians 5:24 65 Wrong Applications! 66 What Is Holiness? 69 Holiness Is Likeness To God, 70 "God is Spirit" 70 "God is Light" 71 "God is Love" 72 Moral God-likeness 72 Divine Holiness Incarnated 73 Holiness Inwrought 74 Not Wholly Instantaneous 74 Complete Possession 75 A Misleading Deviation 76 "Victorious Life" 76 An Axiomatic Truth 77 Holiness Is Restoration 78 Excursus On Holiness As Restoration 83 Holiness: Yes, But How? 84 To What Degree? 86 Entire Sanctification 94 Accompaniments 96 "Let us go up . . . and possess" 98 Transfiguration Of Character 103 Inward Metamorphosis 105 Progressive Christlikeness 108 Summary And Suggestions 111 Supplementary 118 What Does Paul Mean By "The Flesh"? 119 Invalidity of Usual Teaching 125 A Truer Illustration 127 What Is "Cleansing From All Sin"? 131 The Usual Teaching 131 The Witness of the Hymnbooks 132 Eradication by Ablution 133 Is it Scriptural? 134 Old Testament Data 134 Use of the Word, "Cleansed". 135 New Testament Data 136 The Blood as a Symbol 136 "The Flesh Profiteth Nothing" 137 "Cleansing" by the Blood 138 What then of 1 John 1:7? 139

Conclusions 140 The Word Of Two Scholars 141 Can We Ever Be Dead To Sin? 142 "Dead to Sin" 143 "Dead to the Law" 143 Death to "the Flesh" 144 What, Then, Of Death To Sin? 146 "Christian Perfection" 149 Can We Be Inwardly Dead To Sin? 151

Appendices 155 Baptism And Death To Sin In Romans 6:1-23 156 On The True Translation Of Anthropos 159 Contradictory Interpretations Of Romans 6:1-23 161