Wesley Collected Works Vol 11
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-wesley-collected-works-vol-11-214 |
| Words | 378 |
Touch it not, lest you should not know when
to stop. You have no need of this to cheer your spirits; but
of the peace and the love of God; beware of men that
pretend to show you the way to heaven, and know it not
themselves. There is no other name whereby you can be
saved, but the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And there
is no other way whereby you can find the virtue of his name
but by faith. Beware of Satan transformed into an angel of
light, and telling you it is presumption to believe in Christ,
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as your Lord and your God, your wisdom and righteousness,
sanctification and redemption. Believe in him with your
whole heart. Cast your whole soul upon his love. Trust
Him alone; love Him alone; fear Him alone; and cleave to
Him alone; till He shall say to you, (as to the dying male
factor of old,) “This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
ort,
AD WICE TO AN ENGLISHMAN.'s
1. Do you ever think? Do you ever consider? If not,
it is high time you should. Think a little, before it is too
late. Consider what a state you are in ; and not you alone,
but our whole nation. We would have war; and we have
it. And what is the fruit? Our armies broken in pieces;
and thousands of our men either killed on the spot, or made
prisoners in one day. Nor is this all. We have now war at
our own doors; our own countrymen turning their swords
against their brethren. And have any hitherto been able to
stand before them? Have they not already seized upon one
whole kingdom? Friend, either think now, or sleep on and
take your rest, till you drop into the pit where you will
sleep no more ! 2. Think what is likely to follow, if an army of French
also should blow the trumpet in our land ' What desolation
may we not then expect? what a wide-spread field of blood? And what can the end of these things be? If they prevail,
what but Popery and slavery? Do you know what the spirit
of Popery is?