Wesley Corpus

Paul, The life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.“ . Your words are, And no question a person endowed with such extraordinary gifts, might arrive at a very eminent degree of assurance.“-So he did arrive at a very eminent degree of assurance, though he did not think himself justified ! | I can scarce think you have read over that chapter to the Colossians : else surely you would not assert, that those words on which the stress lies, (viz. © Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath tran- . Nlated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgivenels of sins,)“ do not relate to Paul and Timothy who wrote the Epistle, but to the Colossians, to whom they wrote.” I need be at no pains to answer this; for presently after your own words are, He hath made us, meaning the Colossians as well as himself, meet to be Inheritors.” -- 3. You may easily observe, that I quoted the Council of Trent by memory, not having the book then by me. I own, and thank you for correcting my mistake : but in correcting one, you make another, For the decrees of the sixth session were not * published on the r gth of January: but the seshon itself began on that day. I . help reciting your words, although they are not exactly to the present question. * The words of the 12th Canon of the Council of Trent are, | | lf any man shall say that justifying Faith is nothing else, but a confidence in the Divine Mercy, remitting sins for Christ's fake, and that this confidence is that alone by which we are justified, let him be accursed.” You add, This, Sir, I am sure is True Doctrine, and persectly agreeable to the Doctrine of our Church. And so you are not only anathematized by the Council. of Trent, but also condemned by our own Church.” Our Church holds no such scandalous and disgraceful opinion. - According to our Church, no man can have © the True Faith, who has not a loving heart.” -- Therefore Faith is not a confidence that any man's To Men of Reason and Religion. 8