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Originally from here.

Taken from ch. 6 on “Perseverance,” in Randolph Foster’s Objections to Calvinism As It Is.

John Wesley’s Serious Thoughts Upon the Perseverance of the Saints (1751): his tract against eternal security. 

Jesse Morrell’s books and his edition of Randolph Foster’s Objections to Calvinism.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. –Matthew 5:27-30

Without holiness no one will see the Lord.  –Hebrews 12:14

In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. –Acts 2:17 (NIV)

These signs will follow those who believe.  –Mark 16:17 (NKJV)

When there is a PROPHET among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in DREAMS. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in RIDDLES; he sees the form of the Lord. –Numbers 12:6-8 (NIV)

Though I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I am nothing…WE KNOW IN PART and we prophesy in part…But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men…If all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all. And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you…Let two or three prophets speak, and LET THE OTHERS JUDGE. –1 Corinthians 13:2, 9; 14:3, 24, 25, 29 (NKJV)

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Gospel Coalition, “The Miraculous Gifts and the Question of Cessationism.”

John Wesley, “Letter to the Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton.”

Ronald Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church.

Eddie Hyatt, 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity.

Robert Graves, ed. Strangers to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture. 604 pages!

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church.

Jack Deere, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit.

—. Surprised by the Voice of God.

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit.

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God.

Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today.

—, ed. Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? (Douglas Oss and Sam Storms).

John Sherrill, They Speak with Other Tongues.

Donald Gee, Concerning Spiritual Gifts.

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit.

Don Basham, A Handbook on Tongues, Interpretation, and Prophecy.

Mel Tari, Like a Mighty Wind.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.  –Romans 8:16 (KJV)

Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.   –Matthew 8:26 (KJV)

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. –1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. –James 1:8 (KJV)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. –Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. –Acts 2:17 (KJV)

The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.   –Revelation 21:8 (KJV)

[Faith] is the power to see into the world of spirits, into things invisible and eternal.   –John Wesley

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Ronald Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church. Hendrickson Publishers, 1984.

Cecil Robeck, ed. Charismatic Experiences in History. Hendrickson Publishers, 1985.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations, ch. 2.

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.   –Titus 2:11-12 (KJV)

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. –1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their LOSS they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. –Hebrews 6:4-6 (NIV)

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. –Hebrews 10:26-31 (NIV)

HOLDING ON to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme. –1 Timothy 1:19-20 (NIV)

Only let not Christ be forsaken, so that THE LOSS OF SALVATION and of an eternal home would be feared.   –St. Cyprian

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I’m pretty sure that these Wesleyan-holiness books have indexes of “once saved, always saved” / easy-believism proof texts; and then they attempt to refute them from an Arminian perspective. I would also recommend consulting John Wesley’s Notes Upon the New Testament and the Adam Clarke Commentary.

Robert Shank, Life in the Son. Bethany House Publishers, 1989. 380 pages.

Dan Corner, The Believer’s Conditional Security. Evangelical Outreach, 2000. 801 pages.

—. The Myth of Eternal Security. Evangelical Outreach, 2005. 230 pages.

—. The Gospel According to Charles Stanley. Evangelical Outreach, 1995. 42 pages.