Wesley Corpus

“When Adam fell, this centre of his soul became a prisoner in an earthly animal. But from the moment God spoke Christ into Adam, all the treasures of the divine nature, the light and Spirit of God, came again into man, into the centre of his soul.” (Page 60.) I cannot find in the Bible when that was, when “God spoke Christ into Adam.” We come now to the proofs of these strong assertions:-- And, (1) “No faith could ever begin, unless every man had Christ in him.” (Spirit of Love, Part II., p. 34.) This proposition needs just as much proof itself, as that which it is brought to prove. (2) “Unless the remains of the perfect love of God were in every man, it would be impossible he should ever love God at all.” (Page 38.) Why so? Cannot God give his love this moment to one who never loved him before ? (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 media torial 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 trum peter biew? And was this tune, or another, or all that ever were and will be played on it, the inward state of the trumpet?