Wesley Corpus

“Which changes the properties of nature into an heavenly state.” (Page 48.) Proof again? “The con junction of God and nature brings forth fire.” This needs the most proof of all. “Every right-kindled fire must give forth light.” Why? “Because the eternal fire is the effect of supernatural light.” Nay, then light should rather give forth fire. “The fire of the soul and that of the body has but one nature.” (Page 52.) Can either Behmen or Spinosa prove this ? 3. Of Adam in paradise. “Paradise is an heavenly birth of life.” (Spirit of Prayer, Part I., p. 6.) How does this definition explain the thing defined 9 “Adam had at first both an heavenly and an earthly body. Into the latter, was the spirit of this world breathed; and in this spirit and body did the heavenly spirit and body of Adam dwell.” (Page 7.) So he had originally two bodies and two souls | This will need abundance of proof. “The spirit and body of this world was the medium through which he was to have commerce with this world.” The proof? “But it was no more alive in him, than Satan and the serpent were alive in him at his first creation. Good and evil were then only in his outward body and in the outward world.” What! was there evil in the world, and even in Adam, together with Satan and the serpent, at his first creation? “But they were kept unactive by the power of the heavenly man within him.” Did this case cover the earthly man, or the earthly case the heavenly 9 But “he had power to choose, whether he would use his out ward body only as a means of opening the outward world to. him;” (so it was not quite unactive neither;) “or of opening the bestial life in himself. Till this was opened in him, nothing in this outward world, no more than his own outward body,” (so now it is unactive again,) “could act upon him, make any impressions upon him, or raise any sensations in him; neither had he any feeling of good or evil from it.” (Page 9.) All this being entirely new, we must beg clear and full proof of it.