Wesley Corpus

(3) ‘Unless Christ was hidden in the soul, there could not be the least beginning of man’s salvation. For what could begin to desire heaven, unless something of heaven was hid in the soul’ (Page 35.) What could Why, any soul which had nothing but hell in it before, the moment grace was infused from above. (4) ‘The Ten Commandments lay hid in men’s souls’ (how) ‘till called into sensibility by writing them on stone. Just so Christ lies in the soul till awakened by the mediatorial office of the holy Jesus.’ (Page 37.) This is only assertion still, not proof. But what do you mean by the mediatorial office of Christ And how is Christ ‘awakened by the mediatorial office of the holy Jesus' (5) ‘The sea cannot be moved by any other wind than that which had its birth from the sea itself’ (page 40). I think it can. I have seen it ‘moved by a wind which had its birth from the’ land. (6) ‘The musician cannot make his instrument give any other melody than that which lies hid in it as its own inward state’ (page 42). Did the tune, then, lie hid in the trumpet before the trumpeter blew And was this tune, or another, or all that ever were and will be played on it, the inward state of the trumpet ‘No more can the mind have any grief or joy but that which is from itself’ (page 43). An unhappy comparison! For the instrument can have no melody or sound at all from itself. And most unhappily applied to the operations of God upon the souls of men. For has God no more power over my soul than I have over a musical instrument