Wesley Corpus

S&. I entirely agree, ** tfiat the foregoing creed is a very extraordinary and odd composition." But it is not mine : I neither composed it nor Mieve it ; as, I doubt not, every impartial recuier will be fully convinced, vben we shall have gone over it, once more, step by step. The parts of it which I do believe I shall barely repeat : on the othera it will be needful to add a few words. ~ I beliere that conversion," meaning thereby justification, '* is an instantaneous work ; and that the moment a man has living faith in Christ, he is converted or justified." (So the proposition must be exto make it sense.) *' Which faith he cannot have, without pPesseo knowini »wing that he has it" *^ Yet I believe he may not know that he has it till long after." This I deny : I believe no such thing. ** I believe the moment a man is justified he has peace with God : ** Which he cannot have without knowing that he has it." ^ Yet I believe he may not know he has it till long afler." This again I deny. I believe it not ; nor Michael Linner neither ; to clear ii^om entirely, one need only read his own words : -- " About fourteen years ago, I was more than ever convinced that I was wholly different from what God required me to be. I consulted his word again and again ; but it spoke nothing but condemnation ; till at last I could not read, nor indeed do any thing else, having no hope and no spirit Idt in me. I had been in this state for several days, when, being musing by myself, those words came strongly into my mind, * God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, to the end that all who believe io him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' I thought, *JUli Then I am one. Then He is given for me. But I am a sinner : and h6 came to save sinners.' Immediately my burden dropped off", and my heart was at resL