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The Journal of John Wesley
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What an excellent audiobook. Derek Perkins did a masterful job. John Wesley's journal is filled with insight and tales of exploit. Lots of interesting material. I read because I'm a lifelong Methodist and ordained pastor.
Quotes below:
Wesley encouraged people that God wouldn’t teach people further until they walked in obedience, doing what they already know is good.
When Bo Nash argued with Wesley, asking by what authority he preached. He said, By the authority of Jesus Christ, and the archbishop of Canterbury when he laid hands on me and said, Take thou authority…
The origin of our classes, for which I can never sufficiently praise God. the unspeakable usefulness of the institution has become more and more manifest.
“Oh let none think his labor of love is lost because the fruit does not immediately appear. Nearly forty years did my father preach here (Epworth).
Self-will is the root of all sin and misery. (Susanna Wesley). Grand religion is doing the will of God and not our own. The one impediment to our temporal and eternal happiness is this alone. The parent who studies to subdue it in their child works with God in the renewing and saving the soul. The parent who indulges it does the devil’s work.
1744 Conference who desired nothing but to save their own souls and those who hear them. We purged the society of those who did not walk in the gospel…I am now clear of the blood of these men.
To those who refused Wesley to preach in their church. Wesley said, Perhaps there is providence in this. God will not suffer my little remaining strength to be spent on those who will not hear me except in an honorable way.
Wherever the doctrine of Christian perfection is not preached, believes grow dead and cold. An hourly expectation of being perfected in love must be kept up. To expect it at death or much later is the same as not expecting it at all.
By Christian perfection I mean, Loving God with all our heart. Do you object to this? 2, A heart and life all devoted to God. Do you desire less? 3, Regaining the whole image of God. What objection to this? 4, Having all the mind that was in Christ. Is this going too far? 5, Walking uniformly as Christ walked. Surely no Christian will object to this.
I am 73 years old, and am able to preach as well as 23 years old. What means has God used to produce such an effect? Continual exercise and change of air. Constant rising at 4am. The ability to sleep immediately. Never losing a night’s sleep. Evenness of temper. I fret at nothing.
The mustard seed of Methodism has spread much in 50 years (England, Ireland, Isle of Whites, Canada/Newfoundland, America) They walk by one rule, knowing religion is holy tempers. Worshiping God not in form, but in spirit and truth.
Defending Methodism coming out of the Anglican church: We have out of necessity varied in some points of discipline by preaching in the fields, extemporaneous prayers, by employing lay preachers, by forming and regulating societies, and by holding yearly conferences. We did none of these things until we were convinced we could no longer omit them except at the peril of our soul.
Quotes below:
Wesley encouraged people that God wouldn’t teach people further until they walked in obedience, doing what they already know is good.
When Bo Nash argued with Wesley, asking by what authority he preached. He said, By the authority of Jesus Christ, and the archbishop of Canterbury when he laid hands on me and said, Take thou authority…
The origin of our classes, for which I can never sufficiently praise God. the unspeakable usefulness of the institution has become more and more manifest.
“Oh let none think his labor of love is lost because the fruit does not immediately appear. Nearly forty years did my father preach here (Epworth).
Self-will is the root of all sin and misery. (Susanna Wesley). Grand religion is doing the will of God and not our own. The one impediment to our temporal and eternal happiness is this alone. The parent who studies to subdue it in their child works with God in the renewing and saving the soul. The parent who indulges it does the devil’s work.
1744 Conference who desired nothing but to save their own souls and those who hear them. We purged the society of those who did not walk in the gospel…I am now clear of the blood of these men.
To those who refused Wesley to preach in their church. Wesley said, Perhaps there is providence in this. God will not suffer my little remaining strength to be spent on those who will not hear me except in an honorable way.
Wherever the doctrine of Christian perfection is not preached, believes grow dead and cold. An hourly expectation of being perfected in love must be kept up. To expect it at death or much later is the same as not expecting it at all.
By Christian perfection I mean, Loving God with all our heart. Do you object to this? 2, A heart and life all devoted to God. Do you desire less? 3, Regaining the whole image of God. What objection to this? 4, Having all the mind that was in Christ. Is this going too far? 5, Walking uniformly as Christ walked. Surely no Christian will object to this.
I am 73 years old, and am able to preach as well as 23 years old. What means has God used to produce such an effect? Continual exercise and change of air. Constant rising at 4am. The ability to sleep immediately. Never losing a night’s sleep. Evenness of temper. I fret at nothing.
The mustard seed of Methodism has spread much in 50 years (England, Ireland, Isle of Whites, Canada/Newfoundland, America) They walk by one rule, knowing religion is holy tempers. Worshiping God not in form, but in spirit and truth.
Defending Methodism coming out of the Anglican church: We have out of necessity varied in some points of discipline by preaching in the fields, extemporaneous prayers, by employing lay preachers, by forming and regulating societies, and by holding yearly conferences. We did none of these things until we were convinced we could no longer omit them except at the peril of our soul.
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