Wesley Corpus

And whatsoever he doeth either in word or deed, he doeth it all in the name, in the love and power, ‘of the Lord Jesus. In a word, he doeth ‘the will of God on earth, as it is done in heaven.’ (6.) “This it is to be ‘a perfect man,’ to be sanctified through out: Even ‘to have a heart so all-flaming with the love of God,” to use Archbishop Usher's words, “as continually to offer up every thought, word, and work, as a spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God through Christ.’ In every thought of our hearts, in every word of our tongues, in every work of our hands, to ‘show forth his praise, who hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light.’ O that both we, and all who seek the Lord Jesus in sincerity, may thus be made perfect in one!” 13. If there be anything unscriptural in these words, any thing wild or extravagant, anything contrary to the analogy of faith, or the experience of adult Christians, let them “smite me friendly and reprove me;” let them impart to me of the clearer light God has given them. How knowest thou, Oman, “but thou mayest gain thy brother;” but he may at length come to the knowledge of the truth; and thy labour of love, shown forth with meekness of wisdom, may not be in vain? 14. There remains yet another charge against me, that I believe inconsistencies; that my tenets, particularly concerning justification, are contradictory to themselves; that Mr. Wesley, “since his return from Germany, has improved in the spirit of inconsistency.” “For then he published two treatises of Dr. Barnes, the Calvinist, or Dominican rather, who suffered in 1541; ”(let us spare the ashes of the dead. Were I such a Dominican as he was, I should rejoice too to die in the flames;) “the first on “Justification by faith only;” the other on ‘the sinfulness of man’s natural will, and his utter inability to do works acceptable to God, until he be justified. Which prin ciples, if added to his former tenets,” (nay, they need not be added to them, for they are the very same,) “will give the whole a new vein of inconsistency, and make the contradic tions more gross and glaring than before.” 15.