 | James Harrison Rigg - Evangelists - 1875 - 252 pages
...revolted from the first. Writing to his mother in 1725, he says : " If we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us, (which He will not do unless we are regenerate,)...most miserable. God deliver us from such a fearful expectation as this !" There, in 1725, we have already settled within Wesley's mind, notwithstanding... | |
 | Thomas Watson Smith - Methodist Church - 1877 - 504 pages
...Christian could know his acceptance with God ; ' If we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us, which Ho will not do unless we are regenerate, certainly we must be sensible of it.' Yet, when a short time after, the brothers John and Charles stood at the bedside of their dying father... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - Methodism - 1885 - 700 pages
...Christian could usually know his acceptance with God. Wesley replied: " If we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us (which he will not do unless we are regenerate),...but in fear and trembling; and then, undoubtedly, in this life we are of all men most miserable." He is feeling after the doctrine of assurance. His... | |
 | John Wesley, James Henry Potts - Methodism - 1891 - 568 pages
...little force as that we cannot perceive whether we have them or not ; if we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us, which he will not do unless we are regenerate,...but in fear and trembling ; and then, undoubtedly, in this life, we are of all men most miserable. God deliver ua from such a fearful expectation as this... | |
 | Councils and synods, Ecumenical - 1901 - 632 pages
...necessity of a conscious salvation. He said: "If we dwell in Christ and Christ in us (which He win not do unless we are regenerate) certainly we must...sensible of it If we can never have any certainty of oar being in a state of salvation, good reason it is that every moment should be spent, not in joy,... | |
 | M. James Sawyer - Religion - 2006 - 641 pages
...Wesley assurance of salvation was critical. Prior to his Aldersgate experience, Wesley understood that "if we can never have any certainty of our being in...that every moment should be spent, not in joy, but fear and trembling."43 Early 3/1/06 3:22:23 PM The Concept of Prevenient Grace GRACE Heals the Soul... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1872 - 554 pages
...revolted from the first. Writing to his mother in 1725, he says : " If we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us (which He will not do unless we are regenerate),...most miserable. God deliver us from such a fearful expectation as this !" There, in 1725, we have already settled within Wesley's mind, notwithstanding... | |
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Now surely these graces are not of so little force as that we cannot perceive whether we have them or not; if we dwell in Christ and Christ in us, which he will not do unless we are regenerate, certainly we must be sensible of it. If we can never have... 
