John Brown of Wamphray on the insufficiency of negative holiness

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Many rest upon their outward civility & morality, or negative holiness. They cannot be challenged for gross faults, and that is all the way they have to rest in: alas, could not a wicked Pharisee say, as much as they, viz That he was no extortioner, unjust person, nor an adulterer, nor such as the publican was, Luk. 18:11?

How many heathens, as to this, shall outstrip such as profess themselves Christians? and yet they lived and died strangers to the right way to happiness. See what that poor young man said Luk. 18: 21. ...

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I’m glad “negative holiness” was defined. Never heard it put that way before.
 
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