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HOLINESS
ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES,DIFFICULTIES, AND ROOTS
 BY 
J. C. RYLE, D.D.
 Foreword by
D. MARTYNLLOYD-JONES
JAMES CLARKE & CO., LIMITED
6 WARDROBE PLACE, CARTER LANE, LONDON EC.4
 
THIS EDITION 1952
 Printed in Great Britain at the
BURLEIGH PRESS
,
 Lewins Mead,
BRISTOL
 
FOREWORD
O
NE
of the most encouraging and hopeful signs I have observed
 
for many a long day in evangelical circles has been a renewedand increasing interest in the writings of Bishop J. C. Ryle.In his day he was famous, outstanding and beloved as achampion and exponent of the evangelical and reformed faith.For some reason or other, however, his name and his works arenot familiar to modern evangelicals. His books are, I believe,
 
all out of print in this country and very difficult to obtain second-hand.The differing fates suffered in this respect by Bishop Ryle andhis near contemporary, Bishop Moule, have always been to me amatter of great interest. But Bishop Ryle is being re-discovered,
 
and there is a new call for the re-publication of his works.
 
All who have ever read him will be grateful for this new editionof his great book on 'Holiness'. I shall never forget the satis-faction—spiritual and mental—with which I read it some twentyyears ago after having stumbled across it in a second-hand book shop.
 
It really needs no preface or word of introduction. All I will
 
do is to urge all readers to read the Bishop's own Introduction.It is invaluable as it provides the setting in which he felt impelledto write the book.The characteristics of Bishop Ryle's method and style areobvious. He is pre-eminently and always scriptural and expository.He never starts with a theory into which he tries to fit various
 
scriptures. He always starts with the Word and expounds it.
 
It is exposition at its very best and highest. It is always clear andlogical and invariably leads to a clear enunciation of doctrine.It is strong and virile and entirely free from the sentimentalitythat is often described as
”
devotional.
”
The Bishop had drunk deeply from the wells of the great
 
classical Puritan writers of the seventeenth century. Indeed, itwould be but accurate to say that his books are a distillation of true Puritan theology presented in a highly readable and modernform.Ryle, like his great masters, has no easy way to holiness to offer 
 
us, and no “patent
”
method by which it can be attained; but
 
he invariably produces that
”
hunger and thirst after righteousness
”
which is the only indispensable condition to being
”
filled.
”
May this book be widely read, that God's name be increasinglyhonoured and glorified.D.M
LLOYD
-
JONES
Westminster Chapel.
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Chapter XIII- The Church which Christ Builds is available on this site as a separate document, "The True Church".

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