Wesley Corpus

“Some do love God with “They (weak believers) do all their heart and strength.” not love God with all their heart and strength.” 85. “From that hour, indwelling sin, Thou hast no place in me.”Believers are not delivered from the being of sin till that hour. MR. HILL's REVIEw. 397 86. “A sinless life we live.” “Christian Library :” NO thing. 87. “While one evil thought can rise, My brother said so once: I am not born again.” I never did. In the note annexed there are many mistakes: (1) “The author of this hymn did not allow any one to be a believer, even in the lowest sense, while he found the least stirring of sin.” He did; but he took the word “born again” in too high a sense. (2.) Yet “he supposes the most advanced believers are deeply sensible of their impurity.” He does not; neither he nor I suppose any such thing. (3.) “He tells us in his note on Eph. vi. 13, ‘The war is perpetual.’” True: The war with “principalities and powers;” but not that “with flesh and blood.” (4.) So you cannot reply: “Mr. W. speaks of believers of different stature.” Indeed I can; and the forgetting this is the main cause of Mr. H.’s stumbling at every step. (5) “The position, that any believers are totally free from sin, is diametrically opposite to Calvinism.” This is no mistake. Therefore most Calvinists hate it with a perfect hatred. (6.) “Many of the grossest of these contradictions were published nearly at the same time; and probably Mr. W. was the same day correcting the press, both for and against sinless perfection.” An ingenious thought ! but as to the truth or even probability of it, I cannot say much. (7.) “These Hymns contain the joint sentiments of Mr. John and Mr. Charles Wesley.” Not always; so that if some of them contradict others, it does not prove that I contradict myself. 88. “Christ in a pure and sinless “There are still two con heart.” trary principles in believers, nature and grace.” True, till they are perfect in love. 89. “Quite expel the carnal mind.” “That there is no sin in a (weak) believer, no carnal mind, is contrary to the word of God.” 90.