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termed the reception of entire sanctification as Baptism with the Holy Spirit. A Holiness text from 1897 explicates this: Fletcher additionally emphasized that the experience of entire sanctification, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, empowers the believer for service to God. After Wesley's death, mainstream Methodism "emphasized sanctification or holiness as the goal of the Christian life", something that "may be received in this life both gradually and instantaneously, and should

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