What experience is said to prove

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But let experience speak, they say. All who are justified do, at that time, find an absolute freedom from all sin. That I doubt. But if they do, do they find it ever after? If not, you gain nothing. If they do not, it is their own fault. That remains to be proved.

1771 text

9. “But let experience speak. All who are justified do at that time find an absolute freedom from all sin.” That I doubt: But if they do, do they find it ever after? Else you gain nothing. “If they do not, it is their own fault.” That remains to be proved.

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On 2 Corinthians 5:17: does sin remain in those who are in Christ? Wesley answers that it remains, though it no longer reigns.

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Sermon 13 in the 1771 Works. Second Corinthians 5:17.

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