Treatise Letter To Mr Potter
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-treatise-letter-to-mr-potter-008 |
| Words | 173 |
Are not your soul and body
such a sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God? As the Lord God
liveth, before whom we stand, if they are not, you are not a
Christian. If you are not a holy, living sacrifice, you are still
“dead in trespasses and sins.” You are an “alien from the
commonwealth of Israel, without” Christian “hope, without
God in the world !”
21. You add, “Thus have I exposed their boasted claim to
a particular and immediate inspiration.” (Page 30.) No, Sir,
you have only exposed yourself; for all that we claim, you
allow. “I have shown what a miserable farce is carrying on,
beneath the mask of a more refined holiness.” No tittle of this
have you shown yet; and before you attempt again to show
any thing concerning us, let me entreat you, Sir, to acquaint
yourself better with our real sentiments. Perhaps you may
then find, that there is not so wide a difference as you imagined
between you and,
Reverend Sir,
Your servant for Christ’s sake,