Wesley Corpus

05 To His Brother Charles Lewisham February 28 1766

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typeletter
YearNone
Passage IDjw-letter-1766-05-to-his-brother-charles-lewisham-february-28-1766-021
Words128
Catholic Spirit Universal Redemption Justifying Grace
Five of them are enumerated in the former catalogue; to three of which - speaking with new tongues, taking up serpents, drinking deadly things - it is not even pretended I lay any claim at all. In the latter, nine are enumerated. And as to seven of these, none has yet seen good to call me in question miraculous wisdom, or knowledge, or faith, prophecy, discernment of spirits, strange tongues, and the interpretation of tongues. What becomes, then, of the assertion that I lay 'claim to almost every one of them in the most full and ample manner' Do I lay claim to any one of them To prove that I do my own words are produced, extracted from an account of the occurrences of about sixteen years.