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Title:  Free grace. A sermon preached at Bristol. / By John Wesley, M.A. Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford.
Author: Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
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Head. And it as naturally inspires Contempt or Coldness toward those, whom we suppose Outcasts from GOD. O (but you say) I suppose no par|ticular Man a Reprobate. You mean, you would not, if you could help it. You can't help sometimes applying your General Doctrine to Par|ticular Persons. The Enemy of Souls will apply it for you. You know how often he has done so. "But you rejected the Thought with Abhorrence." True: As soon as you could. But how did it sour and sharpen your Spirit in the mean time? You well know, it was not the Spirit of Love, which you then felt towards that poor Sinner, whom you supposed or suspected, whether you would or no, to have been hated of GOD from Eternity.12. Thirdly, This Doctrine tends to destroy the Comfort of Religion, the Happiness of Christianity: This is evident as to all those who believe them|selves to be reprobated, or who only suspect or fear it. All the great and precious Promises are lost to them. They afford them no Ray of Comfort: For they are not the Elect of GOD. Therefore they have neither Lot nor Portion in them. This is an effectual Bar to their finding any Com|fort or Happiness even in that Religion, whose Ways were designed to be Ways of Pleasantness, and all her Paths Peace.0