The Original, Nature, Property and Use of the Law · §24 · John Wesley

Is his will the original

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“But is the will of God the cause of his law? Is his will the original of right and wrong? Is a thing therefore right, because God wills it? Or does he will it, because it is right?”

1771 text

6. “But is the will of God the cause of his law? Is his will the original of right and wrong? Is a thing therefore right, because God wills it? Or does he will it, because it is right?”

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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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