The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 01 (of 32)

2. _Ye are saved_ (to comprize all in one word) from sin. This is the salvation which is through faith. This is that great salvation foretold by the angel, before God brought hi...

♦5. They are not condemned, Secondly, for any present sins, for now transgressing the commandments of God. For they do not transgress them? They do not _walk after the flesh but...

2. Then the heavens will be shriveled up _as a parchment scroll, and pass away with a great noise_: they will _flee from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and there wi...

7. * Once more. The scriptures teach, _this is the love of God_ (the sure mark thereof) _that we keep his commandments_, _1 John_ v. 3. And our Lord himself saith, _he that keep...

In like manner, the evangelical state, or state of love, is frequently mixt with the legal. For few of those who have the spirit of bondage and fear, remain always without hope....

4. But this ignorance never so strongly glares, as in those who are term’d, _men of learning_. If a natural man be one of these, he can talk at large of his rational faculties:...

10. Sincerity therefore is necessarily implied in the being _almost a Christian_: a real design to serve God, a hearty desire to do his will: it is necessarily implied, that a m...

2. * Faith in general is, a divine, supernatural ἔλεγχος, _evidence_ or conviction _of things not seen_, not discoverable by our bodily senses, as being either past, future or s...

3. “But I lay it down as an undoubted truth, the fruit of the Spirit is the witness of the Spirit.” Not undoubted; thousands doubt of, yea flatly deny it: but to let that pass....

10. One argument more against this new, unscriptural doctrine, may be drawn from the dreadful consequences of it. One says, “I felt anger to-day.” Must I reply, then you have no...

8. And as he was deeply sensible of the truth of that word, _without me ye can do nothing_, and consequently, of the need he had to be _water’d_ of God _every moment_; so he _co...

II. 1. These things considered, it will be easy to shew, as I proposed to do in the second place, the folly of trusting in the _righteousness which is of the law_, and the wisdo...

5. Yet once more. We allow (though it is a melancholy truth) that a large proportion of those who are called Christians, do to this day abuse the means of grace, to the destruct...

10. * Yet on the authority of God’s word and our own church, I must repeat the question, _Hast thou received the Holy Ghost?_ If thou hast not, thou art not yet a Christian: for...

9. Once more, what shall we say concerning the youth of this place? Have _you_ either the form or the power of _Christian_ Godliness? Are you humble, teachable, advisable; or st...

13. This sincerity is termed by the apostle, godly sincerity, or the sincerity of God, (εἰλικρίνεια Θεοῦ,) to prevent our mistaking or confounding it with the sincerity of the H...

2. On the contrary, a deep conviction that we are not yet whole, that our hearts are not fully purified, that there is yet in us _a carnal mind_, which is still in its nature _e...

7. And how hard is it even for the children of God wholly to conquer _the pride of life_? St. _John_ seems to mean by this nearly the same with what the world terms the sense of...

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12. This holiness and happiness joined in one, are sometimes stiled in the inspired writings, _the kingdom of God_, (as by our Lord in the text) and sometimes, _the kingdom of h...

With regard to the former, we may observe, there is a kind of order, wherein God himself is generally pleased, to use these means, in bringing a sinner to salvation. A stupid, s...