Witnesses of Perfect Love
Witnesses of Perfect Love

Author: Amy Caswell Bratton

Publisher: Clements Publishing Group Inc.

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1926798309

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In Witnesses of Perfection Amy Caswell Bratton explores how the eighteenth-century doctrine of Christian Perfection spread in the early British Methodist communities. Alongside leaders such as John and Charles Wesley teaching about Christian Perfection, Methodist men and women told narratives of Christian Perfection which transmitted the doctrine. Using narrative to spread Christian Perfection was effective because it both communicated the content of the experience of Christian Perfection and also commended this experience to the listener. This study is noteworthy for its detailed analysis of several first-hand narratives that testify to the experience, and which were made public for the edification of the Methodist community in the Arminian Magazine and other publications. The narratives of four Methodist people are examined at length: Sarah Crosby (1729-1804), George Clark (1710-1797), William Hunter (1728-1797) and Bathsheba Hall (1745-1780). In addition to observing the transmission of the doctrine through narrative, the study of these stories illuminates early Methodist spirituality and the doctrine of Christian Perfection (or entire sanctification) through the embodiment of Perfection in the life of real people. This lived-out expression of Christian Perfection draws attention to unique elements of the doctrine as each narrative illustrates nuances of Christian Perfection. Finally, the narratives of Perfection offer the embodiment of transformation which resulted in lasting change.

The Riches of Grace, Or the Blessing of Perfect Love, as Experienced, Enjoyed, and Recorded, by Living Witnesses (Classic Reprint)
The Riches of Grace, Or the Blessing of Perfect Love, as Experienced, Enjoyed, and Recorded, by Living Witnesses (Classic Reprint)

Author: D. S. King

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-04

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780332404004

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Excerpt from The Riches of Grace, or the Blessing of Perfect Love, as Experienced, Enjoyed, and Recorded, by Living Witnesses For several years past, I have noticed in conference and prayer meetings, that the relation of Christian experience has been peculiarly interesting and profitable; and as editor of the Guide to Holiness, I could but be sensibly impressed, by public and private correspond ence, as well as by personal interviews, with the importance of those communications which have described the deeper workings of grace in the hearts of God's people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.