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Aaron Hills

      Hills was so heavily influenced by Charles G. Finney that he wrote a book about Finney's life. Hills was part of the Holiness movement, which emphasized that the process of salvation involves two crises. In the first, conversion or justification, one is freed from the sins he has committed. In the second, entire sanctification or full salvation, one is liberated from the flaw in his moral nature that causes him to sin.

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Aaron Hills

What Paul Said About Holiness 1

Paul wrote the Thessalonians as Christians, unquestionably declaring them to be such in the first chapter; and in the third chapter he as certainly prays that they may have a second work of grace in their hearts, "to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness" (I Thess. 3-13). Three... Read More
Aaron Hills

What Paul Said About Holiness 2

The Apostle Paul is the wisest interpreter and expounder of the gospel of Christ that the ages have produced. It becomes supremely important to learn what he thought of the Pentecostal experience. Did he believe in a distinct, epochal spiritual experience, subsequent to regeneration, and quite as ma... Read More
Aaron Hills

What Paul Said About Holiness 3

We have seen in the previous two chapters that the chief of the apostles wrote to the Thessalonians his first epistle, urging them in the most explicit terms to seek entire sanctification as a second work of grace. It was a church only recently converted from heathenism, yet entire sanctification wa... Read More
Aaron Hills

What Paul Said About Holiness 4

The apostle writes to the Philippians, his best-loved church. He cannot get through the first chapter without a prayer for their sanctification in these words (verses 9-11): "And this I pray . . . that ye may be sincere and void of offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righ... Read More
Aaron Hills

What Peter Said About Holiness

We have seen in previous chapters how highly Jesus and St. Paul estimated the importance of Pentecost. Paul was the wisest interpreter and greatest theologian of the Christian religion and Church. As we have seen, he urged the Pentecostal experience upon Christian believers, as a second work of grac... Read More
Aaron Hills

What this Pentecostal Blessing is which People are Rejecting, and how it may be Obtained

If we were to take a text or two to indicate the Divine endorsement of our teaching and give added weight to our words, out of very many that might be taken we select two: Rom. 6:6: "Knowing this that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no l... Read More
Aaron Hills

The Second Blessing in Experience

THE SECOND BLESSING IN EXPERIENCE, IN THEOLOGY, AND IN THE BIBLE 1 Thess. V. 23: "And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly." I. Experience. George Fox was born in 1624. He was one of the first of the modern apostles of holiness, and founder of the Society of Friends. Here is his luminous tes... Read More

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