Wesley Corpus

An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1743
Passage IDjw-earnest-appeal-003
Words176
Means of Grace Scriptural Authority
8 ber APPEAL We answer, son the Scripture hypothesis), It is the gift of, God. No man is able to --_-- it in himself, It 15 a work of omnipotence. It requires no less power thus to. quicken a dead soul, than to raise a body that lies in the grave. It is a new creation ; and none can create a {oul anew but he who at first created the hegvens and the earth. 10. May not your own experience teach you this P Can you give yourself this Faith r Is it now in your power to see, or hear, or taste, or feel God ? Have you already, or can you raise in yourself any perception of God, or of an invisible world: I suppose you do not deny, that there is an invisible world: you will not charge i in poor old Hesiod, to Christian prejudice of education, when. he fays, in those well known words, | Millions of spiritual creatures walk. the earth Unseen, whether we wake, or if we sleep.