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title: 'Plumer on Where True Piety Begins and Ends'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-08-08
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-plumer-on-where-true-piety-begins-and-ends
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# Plumer on Where True Piety Begins and Ends

“True piety begins, continues and is perfected by our union with Christ. We are cleansed through his blood, we are clothed in his righteousness, we are purified by his Spirit — we meet the demands of the law of this day of grace, when we walk as he walked, and have the same mind that was in him.” — [**William S. Plumer**](/authors/william-swan-plumer), *Inaugural Address as Professor of Didactic and Pastoral Theology at Western Theological Seminary* (1854)