Wesley Corpus

9.) “The Lord turned not from his wrath.” (2 Kings xxiii. 26.) “For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.” (Isaiah v. 25.) “The Lord is slow to anger, and of great kindness; he will not always chide, neither keepeth he his anger for ever.” (Psalm ciii. 8, 9.) “The Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger.” (Joshua vii. 26.) “In wrath remember mercy.” (Hab. iii. 2.) “Though thou wast angry, thine anger is turned away.” (Isaiah xii. 1.) “Many a time turned he his anger away.” (Psalm lxxviii. 38.) (3) “I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity.” (Isaiah xiii. 11.) “Behold, the Lord cometh to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.” (xxvi. 21.) “Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?” (Job xxxi. 3.) “I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings.” (Jer. xxi. 14.) “I will punish you for all your iniquities.” (Amos iii. 2.) “If ye will not hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.” (Lev. xxvi. 18.) “I will punish all that oppress them.” (Jer. xxx.20.) Now, which am I to believe? God or man? Your miserable philosophy leads you, in the Third place, totally to deny the scripture doctrine of justification. Indeed, you do not appear to have the least conception of the matter; no, not even to know what the term justification means. Accordingly, you affirm, “Salvation, which all Divines agree includes both justifica tion and sanctification, is nothing else but to be made like Christ.” (Spirit of Prayer, Part I., p. 53.) “Regeneration is the whole of man’s salvation.” (Part II., p. 37.) “Redemption is nothing else but the life of God in the soul.” (Part I., p. 79.) “The one only work of Christ as your Redeemer is to raise into life the smothered spark of heaven in you.” (Spirit of Love, Part II., p. 45.) “He is our atonement and reconciliation with God, because by him we are set again in our first state of holiness.” (Part I., p.