Awake Thou That Sleepest · §10 · John Wesley

Child of the devil

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If he does not now bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God, O that he might convince you, you poor unawakened sinner, by his demonstration and power, that you are a child of the devil. O that, as I prophesy, there might now be a noise and a shaking, and that the bones might come together, bone to its bone. Then come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. And do not harden your hearts, and do not resist the Holy Ghost, who even now has come to convince you of sin, because you do not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

1771 text

12. If he doth not now bear witness with thy spirit, that thou art a child of God, O that he might convince thee, thou poor unawakened sinner, by his demonstration and power, that thou art a child of the devil! O that as I prophesy, there might now be a noise and a shaking, and may the bones come together, bone to his bone. Then come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live! And do not ye harden your hearts, and resist the Holy Ghost, who even now is come to convince you of sin, because you believe not on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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Charles Wesley's 1742 Oxford sermon on Ephesians 5:14, which John printed: a call to those asleep in their sins to wake and come to Christ.

EditionPreached by Charles Wesley before the University of Oxford, 4 April 1742. John Wesley published it. The panel is the 1771 Works

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.

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