The Scripture Way of Salvation · §12 · John Wesley

All sin is gone?

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How naturally do those who experience such a change imagine that all sin is gone? That it is utterly rooted out of their heart, and has no more any place in it? How easily do they draw that inference: I feel no sin, therefore I have none. It does not stir, therefore it does not exist. It has no motion, therefore it has no being.

1771 text

5. How naturally do those who experience such a change, imagine that all sin is gone? That it is utterly rooted out of their heart, and has no more any place therein? How easily do they draw that inference, “I feel no sin: therefore I have none.” It does not stir; therefore it does not exist: it has no motion; therefore it has no being.

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On Ephesians 2:8: what salvation is, what faith is, and how we are saved by it, from pardon to holiness of heart.

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 43 in the 1771 Works. Ephesians 2:8.

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