Hill, Alonzo. Practical Error, and the Test of True Holiness: A Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Josiah Moore, as pastor of the First Church and Society in Athol, December 8, 1830. Worcester: Spooner and Church, Printers, 1831. [11112]
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The text is Hebrews 12:14, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."
"The subject of my discourse, you will already anticipate, is practical error. I wish to shew the manner in which the great truth of the necessity of personal virtue has been evaded, and then to point a test by which we may detect its influence."
Rev. Hill says that holiness is "true excellence - disinterested goodness - an uniform desire - a constant endeavor - a general habit of doing right from a right motive." This is an example of Unitarian philosophy in which holiness is defined as good habits and amiable dispositions, merely "a general habit of doing right".
Rev. Alonzo Hill (1800-1871), graduated from Harvard College (1822) and from Harvard Divinity School (1826). He was the minister of the Second Parish in Worcester (Unitarian), Massachusetts, from 1827 until his death.
