The Law Established Through Faith Discourse I · §41 · John Wesley

Are you still tender

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Are they so still? Is your conscience as tender now in these things, as it was then? Do you still follow the same rule both in furniture and apparel, trampling all finery, all superfluity, everything useless, everything merely ornamental; however fashionable, under foot? Rather, have you not resumed what you had once laid aside, and what you could not then use without wounding your conscience? And have you not learned to say, “O, I am not so scrupulous now.” I would to God you were! Then you would not sin thus, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

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*Are they so still? Is your conscience as tender now in these things, as it was then? Do you still follow the same rule both in furniture and apparel, trampling all finery, all superfluity, every thing useless, every thing merely ornamental; however fashionable, under foot? Rather, have you not resumed what you had once laid aside, and what you could not then use without wounding your conscience? And have you not learned to say, “O, I am not so scrupulous now.” I would to God you were! Then you would not sin thus, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

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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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