Reading plan · 63 days · 20 hr 9 min read

The Pursuit of Holiness

Nine weeks on being wholly the Lord's. Andrew Murray traces our holiness to our union with the Holy One, William Law calls us to a life devout in every ordinary hour, and John Wesley sets out plainly what Christian perfection is — and is not.

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In this plan

Days 1–33 Holy in Christ 33 days · 6 hr 56 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 1–7
  1. Preface 4 min Today
  2. God’s Call to Holiness 1 Pet. i. 15 · 12 min
  3. God’s Provision for Holiness 1 Cor. i. 2 · 12 min
  4. Holiness and Creation Gen. ii. 3 · 11 min
  5. Holiness and Revelation 15 min
  6. Holiness and Redemption Num. iii. 13 · 12 min
  7. Holiness and Glory 11 min
Week 2 Days 8–14
  1. Holiness and Obedience 13 min
  2. Holiness and Indwelling 11 min
  3. Holiness and Mediation 11 min
  4. Holiness and Separation Lev. xx. 24 · 13 min
  5. The Holy One of Israel Lev. xi. 45 · 12 min
  6. The Thrice Holy One Isa. vi. 1–3 · 13 min
  7. Holiness and Humility Isa. lvii. 15 · 11 min
Week 3 Days 15–21
  1. The Holy One of God Luke i. 35 · 11 min
  2. The Holy Spirit John vii. 39 · 12 min
  3. Holiness and Truth John xvii. 17 · 12 min
  4. Holiness and Crucifixion John xvii. 19 · 12 min
  5. Holiness and Faith Acts xxvi. 18 · 13 min
  6. Holiness and Resurrection Rom. i. 4 · 12 min
  7. Holiness and Liberty Rom. vi. 18 · 12 min
Week 4 Days 22–28
  1. Holiness and Happiness Rom. xiv. 17 · 13 min
  2. In Christ our Sanctification 1 Cor. i. 30 · 12 min
  3. Holiness and the Body 1 Cor. iii. 16 · 13 min
  4. Holiness and Cleansing 2 Cor. vii. 1 · 12 min
  5. Holiness and Blamelessness 1 Thess. ii. 10 · 11 min
  6. Holiness and the Will of God 1 Thess. iv. 3 · 11 min
  7. Holiness and Service 2 Tim. ii. 21 · 12 min
Week 5 Days 29–33
  1. The Way into the Holiest Heb. x. 19–22 · 14 min
  2. Holiness and Chastisement Heb. xii. 10 · 13 min
  3. The Unction from the Holy One 1 John ii. 20 · 12 min
  4. Holiness and Heaven 2 Pet. iii. 11 · 13 min
  5. Notes 37 min
Days 34–57 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life 24 days · 10 hr 24 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 34–40
  1. Concerning the nature and extent of Christian devotion 19 min
  2. An inquiry into the reason, why the generality of Christians fall so far short of the holiness and devotion of Christianity 15 min
  3. Of the great danger and folly, of not intending to be as eminent and exemplary as we can, in the practice of all Christian virtues 22 min
  4. We can please God in no state or employment of life, but by intending and devoting it all to His honour and glory 29 min
  5. Persons that are free from the necessity of labour and employments, are to consider themselves as devoted to God in a higher degree 14 min
  6. Containing the great obligations, and the great advantages of making a wise and religious use of our estates and fortunes 18 min
  7. How the imprudent use of an estate corrupts all the tempers of the mind, and fills the heart with poor and ridiculous passions, through the whole course of life; represented in the character of Flavia 13 min
Week 2 Days 41–47
  1. How the wise and pious use of an estate naturally carrieth us to great perfection in all the virtues of the Christian life; represented in the character of Miranda 21 min
  2. Containing some reflections upon the life of Miranda, and showing how it may, and ought to be imitated by all her sex 25 min
  3. Showing how all orders and ranks of men and women, of all ages, are obliged to devote themselves unto God 30 min
  4. Showing how great devotion fills our lives with the greatest peace and happiness that can be enjoyed in this world 31 min
  5. The happiness of a life wholly devoted to God farther proved, from the vanity, the sensuality, and the ridiculous poor enjoyments, which they are forced to take up with who live according to their own humours. This represented in various characters 25 min
  6. That not only a life of vanity, or sensuality, but even the most regular kind of life, that is not governed by great devotion, sufficiently shows its miseries, its wants and emptiness, to the eyes of all the world. This represented in various characters 26 min
  7. Concerning that part of devotion which relates to times and hours of prayer. Of daily early prayer in the morning. How we are to improve our forms of prayer, and how to increase the spirit of devotion 42 min
Week 3 Days 48–54
  1. Of chanting, or singing of psalms in our private devotions. Of the excellency and benefit of this kind of devotion. Of the great effects it hath upon our hearts. Of the means of performing it in the best manner 34 min
  2. Recommending devotions at nine o'clock in the morning, called in Scripture the third hour of the day. The subject of these prayers is humility 22 min
  3. Showing how difficult the practice of humility is made, by the general spirit and temper of the world. How Christianity requireth us to live contrary to the world 23 min
  4. Showing how the education which men generally receive in their youth makes the doctrines of humility difficult to be practised. The spirit of a better education represented in the character of Paternus 27 min
  5. Showing how the method of educating daughters makes it difficult for them to enter into the spirit of Christian humility. How miserably they are injured and abused by such an education. The spirit of a better education, represented in the character of Eusebia 37 min
  6. Recommending devotion at twelve o'clock, called in Scripture the sixth hour of the day. This frequency of devotion equally desirable by all orders of people. Universal love is here recommended to be the subject of prayer at this hour. Of intercession, as an act of universal love 42 min
  7. Of the necessity and benefit of intercession, considered as an exercise of universal love. How all orders of men are to pray and intercede with God for one another. How naturally such intercession amends and reforms the hearts of those that use it 33 min
Week 4 Days 55–57
  1. Recommending devotion at three o'clock, called in Scripture the ninth hour of the day. The subject of prayer at this hour is resignation to the Divine pleasure. The nature and duty of conformity to the will of God, in all our actions and designs 25 min
  2. Of evening prayer. Of the nature and necessity of examination. How we are to be particular in the confession of all our sins. How we are to fill our minds with a just horror and dread of all sin 26 min
  3. The conclusion. Of the excellency and greatness of a devout spirit 23 min
Days 58–63 A Plain Account of Christian Perfection 6 days · 2 hr 49 min read
About this book
  1. Sections 1-7 8 min
  2. Sections 8-14 29 min
  3. Sections 15-21 50 min
  4. Sections 22-24 14 min
  5. Section 25 58 min
  6. Sections 26-28 11 min

Authors

Andrew Murray · William Law · John Wesley

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