The Great Privilege of Those That Are Born of God · §37 · John Wesley

The outward sin

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Then God disappeared, and, faith and love being extinct, he committed the outward sin. Not walking uprightly, not according to the truth of the gospel, he separated himself from his Christian brothers, and by his evil example, if not by advice also, compelled even the Gentiles to live after the manner of the Jews, to entangle themselves again with that yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1) from which Christ had set them free.

1771 text

Then God disappeared, and faith and love being extinct, he committed the outward sin. Walking not uprightly, not according to the truth of the gospel, he separated himself from his Christian brethren, and by his evil example, if not advice also, compelled even the Gentiles to live after the manner of the Jews; to entangle themselves again with that yoke of bondage, from which Christ had set them free.

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On 1 John 3:9: what it means to be born of God, how it differs from being justified, and why whoever is born of God does not commit sin.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

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 19 in the 1771 Works. First John 3:9.

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