PREACHED AT ST. MARY’S OXFORD, ON WHITSUNDAY, 1736 “Now the Lord is that Spirit.” 2 Cor. 3:17 The Apostle had been showing how the gospel ministry was superior to that of the law: The time being now come when types and shadows should be laid aside, and we should be invited to our duty by…
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Sermon 140 – On Public Diversions
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it” Amos 3:6. It is well if there are not too many here who are too nearly concerned in these words of the Prophet; the plain sense of…
Sermon 139 – On Love
PREACHED AT SAVANNAH, FEBRUARY 20, 1736 “Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.” 1 Cor. 13:3. [1.] There is great reason to fear that it will hereafter be said of most of you who are…
Sermon 138 – On Grieving The Holy Spirit
WILLIAM TILLY ABRIDGED AND REVISED BY JOHN WESLEY WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733 “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Eph. 4:30. There can be no point of greater importance to him who knows that it is the Holy Spirit which leads us into all truth…
Sermon 137 – On the Resurrection of the Dead
BENJAMIN CALAMY ABRIDGED AND REVISED BY JOHN WESLEY WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732 “But some man will say, how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come” 1 Cor. 15:35. [This Sermon was originally written by Benjamin Calamy, D.D., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London. It occurs, p. 275, in a…
Sermon 136 – On Corrupting The Word Of God
PREACHED ABOUT THE YEAR 1728 “We are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.” 2 Cor. 2:17. [1.] Many have observed, that nothing conduces more to a Preacher’s success with those that hear him, than a…
Sermon 135 – On Mourning For The Dead
PREACHED AT EPWORTH, JANUARY 11, 1726, AT THE FUNERAL OF JOHN GRIFFITH: A HOPEFUL YOUNG MAN. “Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast Can I bring him back again I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” 2 Sam. 12:23. The resolution of a wise and good man, just recovering…
Sermon 134 – True Christianity
“How is the faithful city become an harlot!” Isa. 2:21. [The following Sermon was found in a mutilated manuscript among Mr. Wesley’s papers. It is dated June 24, 1741. A Latin copy of the same Discourse has also been discovered. Mr. Pawson, with great care, copied the former, and I have supplied the deficiencies out…
Sermon 133 – On The Death Of Rev. Mr. John Fletcher
PREACHED ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. JOHN FLETCHER VICAR OF MADELEY, SHROPSHIRE TO THE READER It was a consciousness of my own inability to describe in a manner worthy of the subject such a person as Mr. Fletcher, which was one great reason of my not writing this sooner. I…
Sermon 132 – On Laying The Foundation Of The New Chapel, Near The City-road, London
PREACHED ON MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1777 “According to this time it shall be said, — What hath God wrought!” Num. 23:23. 1. We need not now inquire, in what sense this was applicable to the children of Israel. It may be of more use to consider in what sense the words are applicable to ourselves;…