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The tinregenerate are alV thofe vyhd are not Methodists . The followers of Wkitefield belieye in absolute predestination to life or to death s independently of the conduct of the individual .
When we read the discourses of the Saviour , when we study , when we feel the g * ospel , how remote do we find it from the creed of the Methodists , regarded altogether ! I will point out some of the discrepancies .
.. The gospel represents Jesus as seeking after all the lost sheep of his fold ; Methodism represents him as , seeking oiily those who are elected , The gospel shevys that the separation of the sheep and the goats does not take place until the last judgment :
, Methodism points out in this world which are the sheep—the faithful , and which are the goats—those who are delivered up to Satan . . The gospel describes redemption as embracing the whole of the human race ;
, Methodism shews its own disciples alone as redeemed by blood . To excite our vigilance , the gospel represents the seductions and perils of the world under the image of an enemy roaming about and ready to { levour us if he find us sleeping , ; or heedless , or gjven up to the influence of the passions ;
. Methodism persuades its adherents that this enemy respects * nid flees from them . The gospel enjoins repentance for our sins as a perpetual duty . The Christian ought to deplore his misery , his weaknesses , and to seek pardon for them in the name of Jesus Christ
Methodism imposes that duty on the world ; that is to say , on all men except themselves ; for they are regenerate , and the change has been effected in them instantaneously , miraculously : it is not a progressive act ; they know and they proclaim the day , the hour , the minute of their regeneration . Let the man of the world
weep - y let him , with David , offer unto Gcid a , broken and a contrite heart ; ! is to the Methodist , he is born again , le i& a new man j he has sinned , but his sins were of former days ; since divine grace has surrounded ; him , as a light from heaven shined round about
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ll ^ tti ay Damascus , fce ; has been ti | e subject of %$ jts * nd of fcnpwledge , joy has been his inheritance ; contrition and grief belong to them on whom grace has not fallen . The gospel commands us to be ever watchful , ever on the alert , because we know not what hour the Lord doth
come , and he will take with him those only whom he shall find ready , with their loins girded and their lamps burning . The Saviour attached so much importance to this injunction that he reserved it for the termination ,
the crowning , as it were , of his instructions ; and to render it more efficacious , he clothed it in the vivid colouring of an intelligible and impressive parable ; Methodism often talks of the sins
of its disciples , but they are the sins committed prior to their conversion , which , being complete and without reserve , takes place once for all , ami the / are transformed into the image of Christ .
The gospel exhorts us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling ; The Methodists , whose salvation is wrought out and perfected , have only to labour for the salvation of others ; therefore they employ itinerant
commissioners , men , women , girls , no matter which , who go about the world , not like the apostles carrying neither purse , nor scrip , . nor shoes , but well attired , loaded with guineas , and , six days of the week out of the seven , refusing none of the sweetest enjoyments of life .
The gospel declares that to enter into the kingdom of heaven , we must do the wilt of our Father which is in heaven ; that eternal life is promised to the redeemed , on the condition that
by patient , continuance in well-doing they accept the covenant , and seek for glory and honour and immortality ; laborious efforts must be made ; the Christian is a wrestler , and he must
strive > Methodism teaches that good works and sanctification are produced necessarily by faith , in Jesus Christ ; and as the iVIethodist possesses that faith , he
is no longer required to work out his own salvation , and to tremble for his own . sake ; he has to work ^ nd to tremble only for the sake of others . The gospel frequently mentions dis T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/2/
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