Wesley Corpus

A 01 To William Law

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typeletter
YearNone
Passage IDjw-letter-1756a-01-to-william-law-054
Words103
Catholic Spirit Universal Redemption Primitive Christianity
Oh that your latter works may be more and greater than your first! Surely they would, if you could ever be persuaded to study instead of the writings of Tauler and Behmen, those of St. Paul, James, Peter, and John; to spew out of your mouth and out of your heart that vain philosophy, and speak neither higher nor lower things, neither more nor less, than the oracles of God; to renounce, despise, abhor all the high-flown bombast, all the unintelligible jargon of the Mystics, and come back to the plain religion of the Bible, ‘We love Him, because He first loved us.’