The Witness of the Spirit Discourse I · §5 · John Wesley

The two questions

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First, what is this witness or testimony of our spirit? What is the testimony of God's Spirit? And how does he bear witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God?

Second, how is this joint testimony of God's Spirit and our own clearly and solidly distinguished from the presumption of a natural mind, and from the delusion of the devil?

1771 text

First, What is this witness or testimony of our spirit? What is the testimony of God’s Spirit? And how does he bear witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God?

Secondly, How is this joint testimony of God’s Spirit and our own, clearly and solidly distinguished, from the presumption of a natural mind; and from the delusion of the devil?

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On Romans 8:16: how God's Spirit bears witness with ours that we are His children, and how to tell that witness from a delusion.

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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.

Reference

Sermon 10 in the 1771 Works. Romans 8:16. The first discourse on the witness of the Spirit.

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