Wesley Corpus

Your humilia tion has no influence on that.” Not as a cause; so the very last words explain it. “Again, I believe that in order to obtain justification, I must go straight to Christ, with all my ungodliness, and plead nothing else.” “Yet I believe we should not insist on anything we door feel, as if it were necessary previous to justification.” No, nor on anything else. So the whole tenor of Christian David’s words implies. 27. “I believe a man may have a strong assurance he is jus tified, and not be able to affirm he is a child of God.” Feder’s words are these: “I found my heart at rest, in good hope that mysins were forgiven; of which I had a stronger assur ance six weeks after.” (True, comparatively stronger, though still mixed with doubt and fear.) “But I dare not affirm, I am a child of God.” I see no inconsistency in all this. Many such instances I know at this day. I myself was one for some time. “A man may be fully assured that his sins are forgiven, yet may not be able to tell the day when he received this full assur ance; because it grew up in him by degrees.” (Of this also I know a few other instances.) “But from the time this full assurance was confirmed in him, he never lost it.” Very true, and, I think, consistent. Neuser's own words are, “In him I found true rest to my soul, being fully assured that all my sins were forgiven. Yet I cannot tell the hour or day when I first received that full assurance. For it was not given me at first, neither at once;” (not in its fulness;) “but grew up in me by degrees. And from the time it was confirmed in me, I have never lost it, having never since doubted, no, not for a moment.” “A man may have a weak faith, at the same time that he has peace with God, and no unholy desires.” A man may be justified, who has not a clean heart. 28. (11.) Not in the full sense of the word. This I doverily believe is sound divinity, agreeable both to Scripture and ex perience. And I believe it is consistent with itself.