The Law Established Through Faith Discourse I · §37 · John Wesley

Filial love or servile fear

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What then? Shall this evangelical principle of action, be less powerful than the legal? Shall we be less obedient to God from filial love, than we were from servile fear?

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4. What then? Shall this evangelical principle of action, be less powerful than the legal? Shall we be less obedient to God from filial love, than we were from servile fear?

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On Romans 3:31: the ways preachers make the law void through faith, starting with not preaching it at all.

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 35 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.

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