Wesley Corpus

I asked him, “ Is there still an old man in you?” He said, * Yes; and will be as long as I live.” I said, “Is there then corruption in your heart?” He replied, “In the heart of my old man there is: but not in.the heart of my new man.” I asked, “‘ Does the experience of your brethren agree with yours?” He answered, “ I know what I have now spoken is the experience of all the brethren and sisters throughout our Church.” A few of our brethren and sisters sitting by, then spoke what they experienced. He told them, (with great emotion, his hand a? aa -4 May, 1741.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 209 trembling much,) “ You all deceive your own souls. There 3 no higher state than that I have described. You are in a very dangerous error. You know not your own hearts. You fancy your corruptions are taken away, whereas they are only covered. Inward corruption never can be taken away, till our bodies are in the dust.” Was there inward corruption in our Lord? Or, cannot the servant be as his Master? Sun. 3.--I gave the scriptural account of one who is “in Christ a new creature,” from whom * old things are passed away,” and in whom ‘all things are become new.” In the afternoon I explained at Maryle-bone Fields, to a vast multitude of people, “* He hath showed thee, O man, what is good. And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” The devil’s children fought valiantly for their master, that. his kingdom should not be destroyed. And many stones fell on my right hand and on my left. But when I began to examine them closely, what reward they were to have for their labour, they vanished away like smoke.