GOULD LIBRARY EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE / 6 'O *J- lQ.a^o-ou^ ofe/'* Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/secondblessinginOOcarr The SECOND BLESSING IN SYMBOL. BY REV. B. CARRADINE, D.D., Author of “Sanctification,” “A journey to Palestine," etc. Third Edition, Enlarged. PRICE $1. THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS CO., CHICAGO—BOSTON. 1821 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893, By L. L. Pickett, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. The author of this book, although a young man, wields one of the most familiar and welcome pens to our Methodism, hence needs no introduction. The types and symbols of the Old Testament evidently con- tain 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 perfect harmony existing be- tween these two books unites them into one Book. The great doctrine of the Book, the doctrine toward which all other doc- trines lead, and in which they all center, is the doctrine of ho- liness. That God wills, provides for, and demands our entire sanctification from all sin, no candid Bible reader will deny. Methodism teaches in her standards of doctrine that entire sanctification is wrought in the believer’s heart subsequent to justification; her founders preached, and her charter members professed, sanctification as a second work of grace. Those who will take the pains to seek will find it so recorded in the ser- mons, songs, and history of the early Methodists. Our author undertakes to show in this book that this doctrine, the second work of grace, is taught in the types and symbols of the Bible. Our prayer is that those wr ho read this book may have the faith that will make them able “to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath con- secrated for us.” H. C. Morrison, Evangelist. (5 ) CONTENTS. Chapter I. Page A Few Opening Words 9 Chapter II. The Second Blessing 15 Chapter III. Symbolism 25 Chapter IV. The Manna—The Two Animals—The Two Birds—The Le- vites and Priests 29 Chapter V. The Two Washings of the Leper—The Two Washings of the Leprous Garment—The Two Anointings of the Leper 36 Chapter VI. The Two Rooms 41 Chapter VII. The Second Approach of the High Priest to the Tabernacle or Temple 49 Chapter VIII. The Two Crossings 57 Chapter IX. The Love Slave; Or, The Two Kinds of Service 64 Chapter X. The Holy Oil 72 Chapter XI. The Two Ways 78 Chapter XII. The Two Covenants 87 Chapter XIII. Abraham’s Altar 94 (fi) Contents 7 Chapter XIV. Page The Eight Offerings 102 Chapter XV. David and the Ark 109 Chapter XVI. The Two Cleansings of the Temple 124 Chapter XVII. The Two Rests 135 Chapter XVIII. The Two Fluids 141 Chapter XIX. The Treasure and the Pearl 149 Chapter XX. Lazarus Dead—Alive—F ree 157 Chapter XXI. The Breastplate and Helmet 166 Chapter XXII. The Two Tables , 175 Chapter XXIII. Walking on the Waves * 184 Chapter XXIV. The Two Prophesy ings 196 Chapter XXV. The Two Baptisms , , . 204 Chapter XXVI. The Two Touches 210 Chapter XXVII. Cisterns and Fountains * 214 Chapter XXVIII. Servants and Friends 219 Chapter XXIX. The Two Companies in Heaven 223 Chapter XXX. Sonship and Marriage 237 8 Contents . Chapter XXXI. Page Visiting and Abiding 249 Chapter XXXII. Circumcision 261 Chapter XXXIII. Crucifixion 272 Chapter XXXIV. The Unsetting Sun 282 Chapter XXXV. The Holy Waters ...... 2Q^ THE SECOND BLESSING IN SYMBOL. CHAPTER I. A FEW OPENING WORDS. L®HE question that is agitating the Church to-day * is whether there is a second and distinct work of God in the soul following that of regen- eration. It appears in papers, pulpits, camp meetings, Conference love feasts, and elsewhere. Wherever and whenever it is sprung there is seen agitation. It is beyond doubt the real question be- fore the Church to-day. There is none that can compare to it. If God has a second work or blessing for the soul, out of which Satan has cheated the Church, ought not men to know it? If, as the advocates of holiness say, this blessing touches the wealth and activities of the Church and transforms the membership into glowing, burning messengers of Christ, is it not an impor- tant, vital, all-essential question? With many on the opposing side the conviction is honest that the advocates of a second divine work are mistaken and deluded. Forgetful of (9) 10 The Second Blessing in Symbol . the fact that the Bible calls it “ the secret of the Lord/’ they expect to know all about it without using the means by which alone the secret can be obtained. It is a conditional blessing, and yet they look to understand what cannot be known except through the compliance with these condi- tions. Experience alone can bring understanding of sanctification as it does of regeneration. A person cannot know a road until he has gone along its length, and yet here are people who have not trod this way of holiness, nor made the effort that will alone place them in it, doubting and de- nying the fact that there is such a way. Many make merry over the term “ second blessing,’ ’ although it is both Wesleyan and scrip- tural. Such merriment only pains the heart of the advocate of holiness, as a laugh about conversion stabs the spirit of the regenerated man. In both cases the feeling is that the laugh or jest is ill- timed, misdirected, and ignorantly aimed at the work of the Holy One. In either case “ they know not what they do.” But the merriment is to be met as Christ received the gibes around the cross. If the blessing is true and scriptural and divine, it will sustain us, while it will also endure and survive every kind of rough treatment. If it is of man, it will come to naught; but if it is of A Few Opening Words . H God it will certainly triumph but alas ! for them ; who should be found fighting against God. The charge made upon us in high quarters is that we are deluded. This is certainly a grave and sweeping charge. It takes in a great many people. It arraigns hundreds of thousands through the land. The charge also takes in peo- ple of great celebrity: such a man as Fenelon, and such a woman as Madam Guyon; such men as Asbury, McKendree, Fletcher, Benson, Clarke, of early days, and such women as Phoebe Palmer, Frances Havergal, Frances Willard, and Hannah Whitehall Smith, of later times. The thoughtful mind is hardly prepared to be- lieve that such people, and so many people, living at wide intervals of time and distance from each other, and without possibility of or motive for col- lusion, could be possessed by so marvelous and general a delusion. Reason and common sense rebel against such a supposition. Now when in addition to this the experience of these people is found to coincide exactly with a teaching that runs through the Bible how is it possible for one to pronounce the whole matter a delusion? Who wonders that a Church which doubts and disputes through its journals, pulpits, and chief officers the fact of such a grace and blessing 12 The Second Blessing in Symbol . should fail to see it? It is the eye of faith, not doubt, that discerns what Paul calls the “ second grace,” and John Wesley termed the 46 second blessing.” Who wonders that men, gifted, learned, religious, and useful, should fail to enter into the holy of holies when they have neglected the laver at the door, and the second application of blood which Moses and Paul agree in saying was necessary as the condition of entrance? Who wonders that any man should fail in this holy ex- perience if he realizes a reservation somewhere in the life, knows there is a room in the heart where Christ is not allowed to enter, a closet where something is withheld or concealed, or is conscious of a wrong unrighted or a confession unmade? What if there be such things as pride, bitterness, ecclesiastical revenge, ambition for place, lust for oratorical honors, and the praise of men, and things even lower? What if a man’s heart should become influenced with the desire for the office of a bishop, and should speak, write, and attitudinize to that end? What if a man indulges in habits unclean and expensive, and exhorts the poor of his congregation to contribute their hard earnings to the support of the ministry and the gospel, and then proceeds in the full sight of the congregation and heaven to puff into smoke or expectorate in A Few Opening Words. 13 tobacco much of that self-denial and consecrated money upon the ground ? Does the reader think that a partially consecrat- ed man can know the mystery of the gospel, take in the tender secret of the Lord, and be fa- miliar with what is beyond the veil, although that veil be rent from top to bottom? The fact that it is rent does not disclose or expose the most holy place. A curtain rent from top to bottom is not pulled down; but the torn edges hang side by side together, and the things beyond are still con- cealed. Christ has not made holiness common to all, but possible to all.