Wesley Corpus

201 expressly forbidden them to do this; and that on pain of death. But surely there is a difference between the Jews offering their sons and daughters to devils, and Christians offering theirs to God. On the whole, therefore, it is not only lawful and innocent, but meet, right, and our bounden duty, in conformity to the uninterrupted practice of the whole Church of Christ from the earliest ages, to consecrate our children to God by baptism, as the Jewish Church were commanded to do by circumcision. November 11, 1756. THE MORAVIAN BRETHREN, (so CALLED,) AND THE REv. MR. JoHN AND CHARLEs wFSLEY.” As those who are under the direction of Count Zinzendorf (vulgarly called Mora vian Brethren) are the most plausible, and therefore far the most dangerous, of all the Antinomians now in England, I first endeavour to guard such as are simple of heart against being taken by those cunning hunters. THE difference between the Moravian doctrine and ours (in this respect) lies here: They believe and teach,-- “1. That Christ has done all which was necessary for the salvation of all mankind. “2. That, consequently, we are to do nothing, as necessary to salvation, but simply to believe in him. “3. That there is but one duty now, but one command, viz., to believe in Christ. “4. That Christ has taken away all other commands and duties, having wholly ‘abolished the law; that a believer is therefore ‘free from the law, is not obliged thereby to do or omit anything; it being inconsistent with his liberty to do anything as commanded. “5. That we are sanctified wholly the moment we are justi fied, and are neither more nor less holy to the day of our death; entire sanctification, and entire justification, being in one and the same instant. “6. That a believer is never sanctified or holy in himself, but in Christ only; he has no holiness in himself at all, all his holiness being imputed, not inherent. “7.