Some of them are of a controversial character; but my object is to promote agreement rather than controversy. Several excellent persons, both clergymen and laymen, have lately experienced a remarkable answer to their prayers for an increase of faith, and in consequence of the peculiarities of the channel through which the answer has been given, they have been supposed to have deviated from old paths, and to have embraced new opinions at variance with the Word of God. I fear that this may be the case in some instances, though I hope it is not so to any great extent, for I find that many of them have never read the books to which some of us have thought it our duty to object, and are as earnest for the old truths as ourselves. I have therefore drawn up these Notes, embodying what I believe to be the teaching of Scripture, in the hope that they may prove a basis of union amongst those who are of one heart and one mind in their common desire to exalt the name of their most blessed Saviour. The texts quoted must be regarded as only specimens, and not supposed to contain the whole teaching of Scripture on the subject. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 1. The only standard of holiness recognised in Scripture is the perfect character and will of God. 1 Peter, i. 15, 16; Rom. xii. 2. There is no allusion in the Word of God to any lower standard of any kind whatever. We are never taught there that ‘We are not called to walk by the rule of angels, who excel, in strength,’ or that ‘our standard is not that which it will be in our glorified bodies.’ According to Scripture, our rule is exactly the same as that of angels: our standard is exactly the same as it will be after the resurrection: and our constant prayer is, ‘Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.’ It is not the object of the Gospel to lower God’s standard to man’s level, but in, and through, the Lord Jesus Christ, to raise us to His standard, and at length present us as faultless before His throne. 2. Personal holiness is the work of God. Of God the Father. Jer. xxxi. 33; John, xvii. 17. Of God the Son. Matt. i. 21; 1 Cor. i. 30. Of God the Holy Ghost. Acts, xv. 9; 2 Cor. iii. 18. 3. It is the action of the believer. Heb. xii. 1; 1 John, iii. 3.