The Original, Nature, Property and Use of the Law · §11 · John Wesley

Tables of stone

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And this he did not show only to our first parents, but likewise to all their posterity, by that true light which enlightens every man that comes into the world (John 1:9). But notwithstanding this light, all flesh had in process of time corrupted their way before him: till he chose out of mankind a peculiar people, to whom he gave a more perfect knowledge of his law. And the heads of this, because they were slow of understanding, he wrote on two tables of stone; which he commanded the fathers to teach their children, through all succeeding generations.

1771 text

5. And this he shewed not only to our first parents, but likewise to all their posterity, by that true light which enlightens every man that cometh into the world. But notwithstanding this light, all flesh had in process of time corrupted their way before him: till he chose out of mankind a peculiar people, to whom he gave a more perfect knowledge of his law. And the heads of this, because they were slow of understanding, he wrote on two tables of stone; which he commanded the fathers to teach their children, thro’ all succeeding generations.

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On Romans 7:12: where the moral law came from, why it is holy, just and good, and what it is for.

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 34 in the 1771 Works. Romans 7:12.

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