Wesley Corpus

This, then, have I learned in the ends of the earth--that I ** am fallen short of the glory of God :” that my whole heart is “ altogether corrupt and abominable ; and, consequently, my whole life; (seeing it cannot be, that an “evil tree” should “ bring forth good fruit:”) that ‘ alienated” as I am from the life of God,” I am “a child of wrath,”{ an heir of hell: that my own works, my own sufferings, my own righteousness, are so far from reconciling me to an offended God, so far from making any atonement for the least of those sins which “ are more in number than the hairs of my head,” that the most specious of them, need an atonement themselves, or they cannot abide his righteous judgment ; that “having the sentence of death” in my heart, and having nothing * [had even then the faith of a servant, though not that of a son. J believe not. Feb. 1738.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. On in or of myself to plead, I have no hope, but that of being justified freely, “through the redemption that is in Jesus:” I have no hope, but that if I seek I shall find Christ, and “ be found in him, not having my own righteousness, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,” Phil. iii, 9.