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
Words127
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.