The Scripture Way of Salvation · §39 · John Wesley

God is able

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It is a divine evidence and conviction, second, that what God has promised he is able to perform. Admitting therefore that with men it is impossible to bring a clean thing out of an unclean (Job 14:4), to purify the heart from all sin, and to fill it with all holiness, yet this creates no difficulty in the case, seeing with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). And surely no one ever imagined it was possible to any power less than that of the Almighty! But if God speaks, it shall be done. God says: Let there be light. And there is light (Genesis 1:3).

1771 text

15. It is a divine evidence and conviction, secondly, That what God hath promised he is able to perform. Admitting therefore that with men it is impossible, to bring a clean thing out of an unclean, to purify the heart from all sin, and to fill it with all holiness, yet this creates no difficulty in the case, seeing with God all things are possible. And surely no one ever imagined it was possible to any power less than that of the Almighty! But if God speaks, it shall be done. God saith, Let there be light: and there is light.

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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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