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Many today understand "His Rest" to refer a degree of victory that allows one to be relaxed and consistent in their faith. Positive. Well, I suppose.... but that is hardly adequate. In fact, it so understates the glorious reality as to be quite wrong, and totally misleading.

In fact, today's authours are in quite a pickle when faced with the many obvious scriptures that refer to "His Rest". Souls who walk in it are virtually unknown today. Few indeed have even heard of the heritage writings that are on this website, so they have not obtained this state of grace for themselves, nor do they know that it even exists. As far as they can tell, they know all there is to be known! Thankfully, this is not the case.

The much preached path of "Progressive Sanctification" is an older pickle: it is a confusion of normal spiritual growth and a lesser expectation. It cannot substitute for His Rest!!! see the above link to 9 FAQs (8 pages) on the topic from “Perfect Love” by J. A. Wood ( full version near the end of the "Entry Directions” page)

So rejoice and be exceedingly glad! There is another whole dimension of glorious freedom in Him that can be yours. A frontier of faith is calling you!! As this web site will clearly demonstrate to you, it not only exists, but within it hides the Empire-shaking authority of the primitive church itself!!! This is the foundation of the Kingdom.

Most of the resources on this website come from "The Great Awakening" revivals (1850-1910) when this foundational work of grace was well known and often entered into. Why? Because the 1800's were peopled by rugged pioneers that were often willing to embrace a correspondingly tough but simple religion of tears and total sacrifice. When they were called to wholly consecrate their hearts and then trust the Father to deliver them from all inward sorrow, their religion worked just that way since He responded with His limitless Grace by bringing them into the intimate embrace of His own Rest. Looking back at history, we can see that the Father has always similarly welcomed such prepared souls into this special fellowship with Himself.

Significant exploits in faith have become more often perceived than actual in our heady and presumptuous age that so eagerly runs after being "puffed up". The wide path of acceptable religion was always built upon a mixed and shifting aggregate of shards of The Rock, assorted household idols, favourite toys and common clay. Such convenient spiritual structuring has always had breathtaking consequences that the media just love to exploit to our lasting shame. Such were seen in the late 1960’s, when A. A. Allen analyzed the ‘era of the vanishing evangelist ten years previously, (The "Voice of Healing" Days- 1946-1956) he wrote, ‘there were more than two hundred evangelists in America with revival centered healing ministries... and uncounted thousands were healed.’ But, he continued, ‘the devil’s destroyed one evangelist after another...’ Some went after the money. Others were seduced by glory, subtle competition or pride. Some got into trouble with the IRD. (now called the IRS) Others fell into sin. All of them saw a once powerful ministry shipwrecked. Let the fear of the Lord be upon all who would walk in this kind of ministry.”

It was good that these evangelists were saved. It was very good that they were empowered to work wonders. How excellent it would have been if their hearts had also been purified and hidden within His Rest! They could have then humbly said with the Lord, " the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." John 14:30 If that was so, we would today remember and honour their names. As it is, their works did not stand..... see "The Real Faith" 1940 (by the aged Charles Price- History section) He tried to warn them.)

The distinct post-salvation foundational work of His Rest was the supreme goal of all serious spiritual believers at the end of the 1800's. In His Rest multiplied thousands humbly hid and obtained His every promise. (see the "Testimonies" section) Their spotless examples and untiring service kept error from any that would listen. The annals of both heaven and earth had abundant lasting honour to record, instead of today's "sinning religion "that has the gall to accept occasional failure as "normal".

Souls within His Rest would be common again if the same age-old price of "all" was paid. His way to His Rest is so plain that even the young or the unsophisticated may enter in. Some of the best old and new copyright-free resources available anywhere have been carefully edited to readable size to guide you to a supernatural child-like trust in Him to take you beyond all blame and into His very bosom.

When you enter, your portion of anointing will rest wholly within The Rock and will be unleashed into an easy and unopposed exponential growth within the supreme hush of His unshakable Presence just as He always promised. His own radiant royal road to the supreme stable power hid in His very fullness will be made open for you....

There is another whole realm of His Grace to be found within His Rest. Why? Just because He lives there!!!

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Disclaimer: It is not the intention of this website to either support or deny any of the vocal end-times stances that abound today. This website instead has the plain goal of making clear the true and proven path to His Rest. It does not attempt to speculate regarding destinies, since there are further spiritual states and frontiers yet hidden within His purposes that none are qualified to discuss publicly, including this authour. These are described with pens of joy upon fleshly tables, not paper. TP

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We Give Thanks
For the years of faith, labour, vision and sacrifice that made the priceless spiritual treasure on this website available to us all. Virtually all of the documents on this website are brief authourized samplers of the excellent "Wesleyan Heritage Library CD" which contains 500 Holiness works, (both old and new) in easy to read and share PDF format. The full documents are on the CD. The resources on this CD have made this website possible.

CD Authour's Preface - by Sulu D. Kelley of Wesleyan Heritage Publishing, producer of the “Wesleyan Heritage Library CD.1 page Sadly, Bro. Kelley pased on to glory on March 31, 2007 while his work lives on. A Tribute to Sulu Kelley

Wesleyan Heritage Library CD Contents List -an orderly full sized list of the contents by title and by authour. 24 pages.

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A Robust Gospel

Our cities and towns are full of churches confidently proclaiming the gospel as they know it, and yet, curiously, saints who manage to enter His Rest are rare indeed. Few even know what it really means!! Outbreaks of sin among the faithful are a fact of life. How can this be?

All the churches, including those who call themselves "Holiness" churches, do not preach a gospel which is sufficiently robust to do the job of our complete deliverance from both sin and sinfulness. The answers are seldom in the seminaries, since they are the official carriers of heritage misunderstandings of this most essential of gospel topics! If we desire to obtain an uncommon intimacy with God, we must read and understand this obscure topic for ourselves. A serious and comprehensive view of the whole gospel in two parts that digs right down past our doctrinal assumptions to shed light where no light has gone before. -by Dr. C.E. Brown. (a holiness seminary professor...)

The Whole Heart
His Rest was given to make the heart entirely whole for New Covenant service. But believers of every stripe routinely apply to themselves key scriptures that they have not yet paid the price to understand. In so doing, they presumptuously consider their hearts whole, when they are not. Either this, or they presumptuously consider wholeness of heart beyond reach... 3 pages by Andrew Murray

The Power of the Cross
Noel Alexander inhabits His Rest as he directs IHOP, the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, an inter-denominational ministry mandated to worship 24/7. In this recent article Noel gently expands the envelope of our understanding of what happened upon the Cross. 9 pages

The Probation for Holiness
Daniel Steele answers the question so many seekers after holiness through the ages, including John Wesley have been led to ask: "Why has God not set this great blessing above the mists of doubt and the possibility of controversy?". If holiness is of such great importance to Him, why is the way not made plain?

Why This Website?
A brief account of the circumstances surrounding the creation of this website, followed by my capsule testimony. 5 pages by Earnest Seeker

The Second Blessing in Symbol

The mystery of His Rest is too otherly to be described well by any one image. This lengthy work studies many of the images that unfold it for us. I especially appreciate Chapter 17, "The Two Rests": "The types and symbols of the Old Testament evidently contain as deep a spiritual meaning as the parables of the New Testament, and the whole combine in the revelation of the great doctrines of Christianity. The great doctrine of the Book, the doctrine toward which all other doctrines lead, and in which they all center, is the doctrine of holiness. That God wills, provides for, and demands our entire sanctification from all sin, no candid Bible reader will deny."

100 pages by Beverly Carradine

Notions of Sanctification
A Survey of Sanctification Theories, With Reference to Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Progressive and Holiness Traditions
Did you know that Holiness teachings are in every branch of the church today? This remarkably well researched theological college dissertation successfully describes the ongoing adventure in the development of sanctification theory within most traditions. It has helped me to gain more appreciation for the amazing depth and breadth of this most essential of gospel topics. It will certainly do the same for you! 58 pages by Robert Edmond (a lengthy download)

The History of Holiness
Do you really understand how these Holiness teachings came to us? This comprehensive outline written by an actual participant in the Great Awakening will surprise you! 10 pages by J. A. Wood See more history on the "Charismata" page -and how the Pentecostals came to miss out on their blessing....

Carnal Christians

Do you consider yourself to be more spiritual than you ought? "We see this illustrated among the Corinthians. In the first chapter Paul says, "I thank God that you are enriched unto all utterance, and all knowledge, and all wisdom." In the 12th and 14th chapters we see that the gifts of prophecy and of working miracles were in great power among them; but the graces of the Spirit were noticeably absent. And this may be the case in our day as well as in the time of the Corinthians."
"let us beware lest the blessing God gives us in our work deceive us and lead us to think that because he has blessed us, we must be spiritual men. God may give us gifts that we use, and yet our lives may not be wholly in the power of the Holy Ghost." 6 pages by Andrew Murray.
Murray is often mistaken for an early but modern pentecostal writer. He is not. He is a sanctified later heritage Holiness writer that uses Holiness jargon in such a way that modern Pentecostals can be easily confuse his holiness terms with modern pentecostal . usage In this article the term "spiritual Christians" is a euphemism for those souls walking in His Rest. In this article Murray briefly describes the endemic spiritual presumption that is still current today; our need of His Rest, and how we may obtain it.

Nine Awful Fallacies

Do you consider sin and occasional sinning to be normal for a believer? When the soul enters His Rest, the heart departs this vale of sorrow to be fixed ever in Him. But before that momentous day, the issue of sin must be faced squarely and without compromise. The trouble is that sin is so challenging and slippery that preachers weak in faith are forever inventing unscriptural ways to avoid the central issue. This excerpt exposes the foolishness of nine common deceptions about sin. 11 pages by M. L. Dye
For much more on this essential preparation in truth see: http://twtministries.com/articles/14_natureofsin/index.html or http://www.stopsinning.net

Is Christian Perfection Scriptural?
Does the word "perfection" confuse you? Semantics and heritage confusions have long given the overworked word "perfection" an undeservingly bad reputation. If you wish to understand His perfect work in us, you need to perfect your understanding of this word as it is used to describe this most essential of supernatural spiritual works. 5 pages by the sanctified theologian J. Sidlow Baxter (1967)

Sanctification and The Self
Do you understand the meaning of the word "self"? An astonishing number of people unknowingly relate wrongly to their own souls when it comes to faith. There are quite a few doctrines that we unconsciously carry that sound good and highly devout, but actually are based on myth instead of fact.

"As a matter of preciseness, the term, ” self‘, is not even good English. It is a truncated form of the noun, ”selfishness‘, and is of only late appearance. It is not Biblical. Nowhere in Scripture do we find such statements as are now common in conferences on the deeper Christian life for instance, ”the self-life must be slain‘ ; ”the selflife is the flesh‘ ; ”the self is the old nature‘; ”in the self is nothing but sin‘. The Bible is misrepresented by such cliches; for it everywhere recognizes that in the basic human self there is both good and bad. It carefully distinguishes between the self and ” the flesh‘, e.g. In Romans 7:18, where Paul says, ” For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing . . . but with the mind [the true self] I serve the law of God‘. Let it be settled once for all in our minds: the ” self‘ is not identical with the ” flesh‘. The ” flesh‘ is only one aspect of the self." 7 pages by the sanctified theologian J. Sidlow Baxter 1967

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