Wesley Corpus

The nine witnesses, therefore, examined on this head, prove just nothing at all. So that hitherto there is not the least proof that I contradict myself. For imputed righteousness. Against imputed righteous 77 ess. 11. “We no more deny the phrase (of imputed righteous ness) than the thing.” “Do not dispute for that particular phrase.” Here is no contradiction: I do not deny it; yet I dare not dispute for it. 12. “This doctrine I have believed and taught for near eight-and-twenty years.” “The use of that term has done immense hurt.” It has ; but here is no contradiction. 13. This is a citation from the “Christian Library.” So it goes for nothing. 14. “I continually affirm, that the righteousness of Christ (in the sense there explained) is imputed to every believer.” “Where is the use of contending so strenuously for those expressions?” I ask it again. But where is the contradiction? 15. This is another citation from the “Christian Library.” So it proves nothing. 16. “The wedding-garment The wedding-garment is ho is Christ’s righteousness, first liness. This does not exclude, imputed, and then implanted.” but presupposes, the other. 17. “This is consistent “John Goodwin contradicts with our being justified this.” Perhaps so; but John through the imputation of Goodwin is not John Wesley. Christ's righteousness.” Whatever, therefore, he says, (observe it once for all,) does not prove that I contradict myself. I am no way engaged to defend every expression of either John Goodwin, or Richard Baxter's Aphorisms. The sense of both I generally approve, the language many times I do not. But I observe here, and in fifty other instances, Mr. H. mentions no page. Now, in controversy, he that names no page has no right to any answer. 18. “I frequently put this expression into the mouth of a whole congregation; that is, I sing an hymn wherein it occurs.” “I dare not require any to use it.” True; but here is no contradiction. I do not require any to use it. Every one in the congregation may use or let it alone. Here comes in a thundering note: “Although most of these extracts from Mr. Wesley's sermon on Jeremiah xxiii.