Wesley Corpus

An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1743
Passage IDjw-earnest-appeal-297
Words216
Means of Grace Scriptural Authority
uence is this? What shadow of Scripture have you to lupport it p Doth not God send by whom he will fend? And who shall fay to him, What doest thou f Thele are too young; fend elder men.” What shadow! of reason ? Is it not pollible, that a person of thirty / 1 f -- Ig > * * -- -- -- -- -- -- 2 -- -- r -- = -- oo -- -- % Wy / --_-- -- 7. * 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 head 3 | 7+) 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