The Original, Nature, Property and Use of the Law · §8 · John Wesley

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To employ all the faculties which he had given them, particularly their understanding and liberty, he gave them a law, a complete model of all truth, so far as is intelligible to a finite being, and of all good, so far as angelic minds were capable of embracing it. It was also the design of their beneficent governor in this, to make way for a continual increase of their happiness: seeing every instance of obedience to that law, would both add to the perfection of their nature, and entitle them to a higher reward, which the righteous judge would give in its season.

1771 text

2. To employ all the faculties which he had given them, particularly their understanding and liberty, he gave them a law, a compleat model of all truth, so far as is intelligible to a finite being, and of all good, so far as angelic minds were capable of embracing it. It was also the design of their beneficent governor herein, to make way for a continual increase of their happiness: seeing every instance of obedience to that law, would both add to the perfection of their nature, and intitle them to an higher reward, which the righteous judge would give in its season.

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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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