An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion
| Author | John Wesley |
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| Type | treatise |
| Year | 1743 |
| Passage ID | jw-earnest-appeal-297 |
| Words | 216 |
uence is this? What shadow of Scripture have you
to lupport it p Doth not God send by whom he will
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To Men of Reason and Religion. 251
thirty or forty may have as true a judgment in the
things of God, and as great a blessing attending his
preaching, as one of fifty or fourscore ?
I wish you would explain yourself a little on this
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Scire velim, verbo, pretium quotus arroget annus ?
How old do you require a man to be, before God shall
have leave to speak by his mouth P--O my ' brethren,
who could have believed any serious man would once
bave named such an argument as this? Seeing both
- Scripture and Reason teach, that God herein giveth account to none of his ways. But he worketh by whomsoever he will work; he sheweth mercy by whom he
will shew mercy, e