On Patience
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | sermon |
| Year | 1784 |
| Passage ID | jw-sermon-083-005 |
| Words | 145 |
10. "Well, but what more than this can be implied in entire sanctification" It does not imply any new kind of holiness: Let no man imagine this. From the moment we are justified, till we give up our spirits to God, love is the fulfilling of the law; of the whole evangelical law, which took place of the Adamic law, when the first promise of "the seed of the woman" was made. Love is the sum of Christian sanctification; it is the one kind of holiness, which is found, only in various degrees, in the believers who are distinguished by St. John into "little children, young men, and fathers." The difference between one and the other properly lies in the degree of love. And herein there is as great a difference in the spiritual, as in the natural sense, between fathers, young men, and babes.