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but that it is possible for those who have been 

 truly converted to fall away and be eternally 

 lost. 

 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 con- 

 version there remain in the heart of the be- 

 liever inclinations to evil, or roots of bitterness, 

 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 sancti- 

 fied, 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 un- 

 blamable and unreprovable before Him. 

 I believe in the immortality of the soul; in the 

 resurrection of the body; in the general judg- 

 ment at the end of the world; in the eternal 

 happiness of the righteous; and in the everlast- 

 ing punishment of the wicked. 

 Therefore, I do here, and now, and for ever, re- 

 nounce the world with all its sinful pleasures, compan- 

 ionships, treasures, and objects, and declare my full de- 

 termination 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 



