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41 The Great Controversy, p. 255.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… England, Wesley, under the instruction of a Moravian preacher, arrived at a clearer understanding of Bible faith. He was convinced that he must renounce all …
42 The Great Controversy, p. 256.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… humiliation—Wesley had steadfastly adhered to his one purpose of seeking God. Now he had found Him; and he found that the grace which he had toiled to win by …
43 The Great Controversy, p. 256.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… obedience. Wesley's life was devoted to the preaching of the great truths which he had received—justification through faith in the atoning blood of Christ …
44 The Great Controversy, p. 256.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… the Wesleys had been prepared for their work by long and sharp personal convictions of their own lost condition; and that they might be able to endure hardness …
45 The Great Controversy, p. 257.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… wolves. Wesley had no thought of forming a new denomination, but he organized them under what was called the Methodist Connection.
46 The Great Controversy, p. 257.3 (Ellen Gould White)
In Wesley's time, as in all ages of the church's history, men of different gifts performed their appointed work. They did not harmonize upon every point of …
47 The Great Controversy, p. 258.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… John Wesley escape death by a miracle of God's mercy. When the rage of the mob was excited against him, and there seemed no way of escape, an angel in human form …
48 The Great Controversy, p. 258.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… occasions, Wesley said: “Many endeavored to throw me down while we were going down hill on a slippery path to the town; as well judging that if I was once on the …
49 The Great Controversy, p. 259.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… .”—John Wesley, Works, vol. 3, pp. 297, 298.
50 The Great Controversy, p. 259.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… John Wesley, referring to the charges against himself and his associates: “Some allege that the doctrines of these men are false, erroneous, and enthusiastic …
51 The Great Controversy, p. 260.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of Wesley was in great degree the result of antinomian teaching. Many affirmed that Christ had abolished the moral law and that Christians are therefore …
52 The Great Controversy, p. 261.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… God. Wesley steadfastly opposed the errors of the antinomian teachers and showed that this doctrine which led to antinomianism was contrary to the Scriptures …
53 The Great Controversy, p. 262.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… law, Wesley said: “The moral law, contained in the Ten Commandments and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away. It was not the design of His coming to revoke …
54 The Great Controversy, p. 262.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… branches.”—Wesley, sermon 25.
55 The Great Controversy, p. 263.1 (Ellen Gould White)
Wesley declared the perfect harmony of the law and the gospel. “There is, therefore, the closest connection that can be conceived, between the law and the gospel …
56 The Great Controversy, p. 263.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… ,” said Wesley, “are they who openly and explicitly ‘judge the law’ itself, and ‘speak evil of the law;’ who teach men to break (to dissolve, to loose, to untie the obligation …
57 The Great Controversy, p. 264.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… law,” Wesley replied: “This we utterly deny. It does not answer the very first end of the law, namely, the convincing men of sin, the awakening those who are still …
58 The Great Controversy, p. 264.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… God, Wesley, like his Master, sought to “magnify the law, and make it honorable.” Faithfully did he accomplish the work given him of God, and glorious were the results …
59 The Great Controversy, p. 385.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… John Wesley, in speaking of the right use of money: “Do not waste any part of so precious a talent, merely in gratifying the desire of the eye, by superfluous or …
60 The Great Controversy, p. 396.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… the Wesleys, and others who blessed the world by their influence and their faith, encountered at every step the wiles of Satan in pushing overzealous, unbalanced …