Holiness Bible Readings

Author's Preface:
The first edition of this book was published in 1883, and consisted largely of readings furnished by various parties, which were only edited, as the writer was not responsible for their arrangement. The unexpected loss of the old plates furnished an opportunity for the revision of the whole book. In the present form it has been entirely rearranged and enlarged. The original idea has, however, been retained, in that the book is more of what God says on the subject of holiness and related doctrines than what man says. It is, therefore, unlike many other books called “Bible Readings, which consist largely of what their various authors say about what God says. In this book we reverse this process.

A book with so many references is difficult to make without some errors, but these we have labored to prevent, and ask the reader’s indulgence for those which may have escaped notice.

The readings not by the author are properly signed by their respective authors, though the arrangement followed in the first editions has usually been recast under appropriate subheadings.

We commend the book again to the many who may use it, saying as we did in the preface to the first edition: “The Word speaks for itself. Make your own remarks and draw your own inferences. We shall be satisfied if it can be said of us, as it was said of our great example, ‘I have given them Thy Word.’”

The Table of Contents are as follows:
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
NATURE AND USE OF BIBLE READINGS
HOW TO MAKE A BIBLE READING
Chapter 1 — THE HOLINESS OF GOD
Chapter 2 — THE HOLINESS OF JESUS
Chapter 3 — DIVINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST
Chapter 4 — MAN CREATED HOLY
Chapter 5 — MAN FELL AND LOST THE IMAGE OF GOD
Chapter 6 — THE FALL DEPRAVED MAN AND HE BECAME POSSESSED OF A CARNAL MIND
Chapter 7 — CARNAL MIND EXISTING AFTER CONVERSION
Chapter 8 — CARNAL MIND CANNOT ENTER HEAVEN
Chapter 9 — REMEDY FOR THE CARNAL MIND
Chapter 10 — KNOWLEDGE IS ESSENTIAL TO SINNING
Chapter 11 — SIN A VOLUNTARY VIOLATION OF A KNOWN LAW
Chapter 12 — SIN NOT IMPUTED WHERE NO SIN WAS INTENDED
Chapter 13 — NO LICENSE TO SIN
Chapter 14 — SALVATION FROM SIN OF GOD AND FOR MAN
Chapter 15 — SALVATION FROM, NOT IN SIN
Chapter 16 — SALVATION THROUGH THE BLOOD
Chapter 17 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF REPENTANCE DEFINITIONS
Chapter 18 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF FORGIVENESS OR PARDON
Chapter 19 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF JUSTIFICATION AND CONVERSION
Chapter 20 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF REGENERATION
Chapter 21 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF ADOPTION
Chapter 22 — SALVATION IS BY WAY OF SANCTIFICATION
Chapter 23 — SANCTIFICATION OR HOLINESS
Chapter 24 — WHAT KIND OF HOLINESS WE MEAN
Chapter 25 — HOLINESS ESSENTIAL
Chapter 26 — CHRISTIAN PERFECTION
Chapter 27 — ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION
Chapter 28 — HOLINESS EXPERIENCED AFTER CONVERSION OR JUSTIFICATION
Chapter 29 — THE BIBLE TEACHES TWO EXPERIENCES
Chapter 30 — HOLINESS RECEIVED ON CONDITIONS
Chapter 31 — HOLINESS A SECOND WORK OR EXPERIENCE
Chapter 32 — THE DOUBLE CURE
Chapter 33 — JUSTIFIED AND SANCTIFIED LIFE DIFFERENT
Chapter 34 — JESUS RECOGNIZES THE HIGHER AND LOWER MEASURES OF RELIGIOUS LIFE
Chapter 35 — CONSENSUS OF VIEW
Chapter 36 — GENERAL MEANING OF THE WORD “SANCTIFICATION”
Chapter 37 — SCRIPTURAL OBTAINMENT OF HOLINESS
Chapter 38 — HOLY BLAMELESSNESS
Chapter 39 — DOES SALVATION SAVE, OR IS IT ONLY A HOPE OF BEING SAVED?
Chapter 40 — CONSECRATION
Chapter 41 — WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
Chapter 42 — WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SANCTIFIED WHOLLY?
Chapter 43 — HOW SHALL I LIVE IT?
Chapter 44 — TEMPTATION
Chapter 45 — HOLY SPIRIT
Chapter 46 — ENDUEMENT OF POWER
Chapter 47 — THE POWER OF GOD’S WORD
Chapter 48 — CONSCIENCE
Chapter 49 — INSPHERED BY THE PROMISES
Chapter 50 — FAITH
Chapter 51 — DUTY OF MAKING OTHERS HAPPY
Chapter 52 — TALEBEARING