Treatise Letter To The Bishop Of London
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-treatise-letter-to-the-bishop-of-london-004 |
| Words | 384 |
I will also save you from all your uncleanness. We
understand hereby, one whom God hath sanctified through
out, even in ‘body, soul, and spirit; one who “walketh in the
light, as He is in the light, in whom ‘is no darkness at all;’
the blood of Jesus Christ his Son having “cleansed him from
all sin.”- •
“This man can now testify to all mankind, ‘I am crucified
with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet I live not, but Christ
liveth in me.’ He ‘is holy, as God who called him is holy,”
both in life, and ‘in all manner of conversation. He ‘loveth
the Lord his God with all his heart, and serveth him with all
his strength.’ He ‘loveth his neighbour” (every man) “as
himself; yea, “as Christ loved us;’ them in particular that
‘ despitefully use him and persecute him, because “they know
not the Son, neither the Father. Indeed, his soul is all love,
filled with “bowels of mercies, kindness, meekness, gentleness,
long-suffering. And his life agreeth thereto, full of ‘the work
of faith, the patience of hope, the labour of love.’ And ‘what
soever he doeth, either in word or deed,” he doeth ‘it all in the
name, in the love and power, ‘of the Lord Jesus.” In a word,
he doeth the will of God “on earth, as it is done in heaven.’
“This is to be ‘a perfect man, to be “sanctified throughout,
created anew in Jesus Christ; even ‘to have a heart so all
flaming with the love of God,' (to use Archbishop Usher's
words,) “as continually to offer up every thought, word, and
work, as a spiritual sacrifice, acceptable unto God through
Christ.’ In every thought of our hearts, in every word of our
tongues, in every work of our hands, “to show forth his praise
who hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
O that both we, and all who seek the Lord Jesus in sincerity,
may thus ‘be made perfect in one !’”
9. I conjure you, my Lord, by the mercies of God, if these
are not the words of truth and soberness, point me out wherein
I have erred from the truth; show me clearly wherein I have
spoken either beyond or contrary to the word of God.