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I believe that it is the privilege of all God's people to be 

 ' "wholly sanctified," and that " their whole spirit and 

 soul and body " may " be preserved blameless unto the 

 coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." That is to say, I 

 believe that after conversion there remain in the heart 

 of the believer inclinations to evil, or roots of bitter 

 ness, which, unless overpowered by Divine grace, pro 

 duce actual sin ; but these evil tendencies can be 

 entirely taken away by the Spirit of God, and the 

 whole heart thus cleansed from anything contrary to 

 the will of God, or entirely sanctified, will then produce 

 the fruit of the Spirit only. And I believe that persons 

 thus entirely sanctified may, by the power of God, be 

 kept unblamable and unreprovable before Him. 

 I believe in the immortality of the soul ; in the resur 

 rection of the body ; in the general judgment at the 

 end of the world ; in the eternal happiness of the 

 righteous ; and in the everlasting punishment of the 

 wicked. 



THEREFORE, I do here, and now, and for ever, renounce the 

 world with all its sinful pleasures, companionships, treasures, 

 and objects, and declare my full determination boldly to show 

 myself a Soldier of Jesus Christ in all places and companies, no 

 matter what I may have to suffer, do, or lose, by so doing. 



I do here and now declare that I will abstain from the use of 

 all intoxicating liquors, and also from the habitual use of opium, 

 laudanum, morphia, and all other baneful drugs, except when 

 in illness such drugs shall be ordered for me by a doctor. 



I do here and now declare that I will abstain from the use of 

 all low or profane language ; from the taking of the name of 

 God in vain ; and from all impurity, or from taking part in any 

 unclean conversation or the reading of any obscene book or 

 paper at any time, in any company, or in any place. 



I do here declare that I will not allow my self in any falsehood, 

 deceit, misrepresentation, or dishonesty ; neither will I practise 

 any fraudulent conduct, either in my business, my home, or in 

 any other relation in which I may stand to my fellow men, but 



