Wesley Corpus

“Why should you be so averse to the righteousness of God our Saviour?” (Page 227.) Far, very far from it. I admire, love, and embrace it, as the ground of all my hope, as the only foundation of every blessing, in time and in eternity. “Why should you ransack all the stores of your learning and knowledge, to exclude this glorious truth from the Bible?” I do just the contrary. I use whatever knowledge God has given me, to defend that glorious truth, “Jesus Christ is made of God unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sancti fication, and redemption.” 14. The Ninth accusation is short: You are an heretic, and your doctrine poisonous. “You scarce distinguish yourself by this language from an heretic. You may rank with the Arian and Socinian.” (Page 140.) What is this language? The saying, “The free love of God brings us through justification and sanctification to glory.” True; neither do I distinguish myself from a Jew, by saying, “There is one God.” Does it follow, that I may rank with Jews? that I am a Jew too? “Such errors are extremely pernicious. They are like poison mixed with food.” (Page 120.) Let those errors be pointed out and proved. I shall then willingly retract them.- 15. I am- accused, Tenthly, with being an Antinomian. “‘Do you then establish the law?’ Are not you the Antinomian P” (Page 143.) I should not imagine Mr. Hervey was in earnest here, but that I read in another place,-- “It is one of your leading errors, that you form low, scarty apprehensions of God’s law.” (Page 69.) What apprehensions I form of God’s law, any one may see in the second and third volumes of my Sermons; wherein, after explaining all the particular branches of it contained in our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, I say of it in general, Vol. V., p. 438:-- “This law is an incorruptible picture of the High and Holy One that inhabiteth eternity. It is He whom in his essence no man hath seen or can see, made visible to men and angels. It is the face of God unveiled; God manifested to his creatures, as they are able to bear it.