What is wrong with either one or the other of the two definitions of holiness referred to here I humbly conceive there has been

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What is wrong with either one or the other of the two definitions of holiness referred to here I humbly conceive there has been too little attention to the nature of holiness among divines in general and that a proper and intelligible definition of it is not easily to be found in bodies of divinity or elsewhere And most of those who think it a very easy matter to tell what holiness is and that we are all agreed in this have been contented with a set of words which express no distinct ideas but leave the thing wholly in the dark They will perhaps say God s holiness is his purity If it is asked In what does this purity consist the common answer is In that which is opposite to all sin the greatest impurity We have now got what I think is the most common definition of holiness But who is the wiser Samuel Hopkins Inquiry into the Nature of True Holiness O Vagueness O Circularity O All the above O None of the above

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