Summary Of Wesley's 'Witness Of The Spirit'

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In Wesley’s “Witness of the Spirit”(Kerr, Hugh T. Readings in Christian Thought. Nashville) he understood and expressed that there is an expectation of salvation when there is a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Also, that this relationship promises to all, whether lay or clergy, that once saved, one is accepted as a child of God. The “Momentus truth” (Kerr, Hugh T. Readings in Christian Thought) that Wesley speaks of is the undeniable truth of the scriptures and that it must be defended against “danger lest our religion degenerate into mere formality” (Kerr, Hugh T. Readings in Christian Thought). The “testimony of truth” (Kerr) is Wesley’s declaration to anyone who would deny the truth of the scripture denies the existence of faith.

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