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He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. 
Come and see the place where he lay.
–Matthew 28:6 (NIV)–

God has raised this Jesus to life, 
and we are all witnesses of it.
–Acts 2:32 (NIV)–

Were not our hearts burning within us 
while he talked with us on the road
and opened the Scriptures to us?
–Luke 24:32 (NIV)–

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In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I FELT MY HEART STRANGELY WARMED. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
–John Wesley–

Begin to tell the people
what you have felt in your own heart,
and beseech the Holy Spirit
to make your heart as hot as a furnace for zeal.
–Charles Spurgeon–

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Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).

Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love (Penguin, 1972).

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN, 2012).

Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
–Ephesians 6:13 (NIV)–

The heart of man is deceitful and envious, a constant adversary of holiness; it is not enough to flee from outward temptation, for within lurks the flesh, plotting sin and rebellion against God. The soul must be armed with a supreme love of Christ, with faith and meditation, and with hatred of sin, that it may subdue the flesh, crush its corrupt desires, and maintain the throne of God within, lest the internal foe triumph.
–Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections—

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Dismantling the clockwork that makes me the cynic
Pallet, wheel, and click
The properties of my indifference
Reverse-engineering what makes it tick
Dissecting the fine-tuned mechanism
Rack and barrel, spring and pin
Its synchronous characteristics
To kill what makes it spin

Disassemble this machinery
Reprogram these eyes, undo this design

Labelled and filed, each part indexed
Broken to pieces, then thoroughly burned
Deconstruction of what I am
Buried to make sure he never returns
Taken apart, defused
Blueprints turned to ashes
Eradicate the last remains
Remnants of the insane

Disintegration
The destruction of me
Now imperative
To purge myself
Of this condition
Complete this dissolution
A necessity

Break
Break
Break
This deceitful machine

A lie, what once I was
Obsolete instrument
An outmoded contraption
A malfunctioning device
That callous self now extinguished
That malignant self now disused
That conceited invention
To nothing now reduced

–Meshuggah, “Clockworks”–

You shall have no other gods before me.
–Exodus 20:3 (NIV)–

Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths.
Rather train yourself for godliness.
–1 Timothy 4:7 (ESV)–

I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
–Jesus Christ in John 14:6 (KJV)–

Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:6 (KJV)–

The time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
–2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV)–

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant,
they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
–Isaiah 56:10 (KJV)–

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I HAVE THE DEEPEST RESPECT EVEN FOR PAGAN MYTHS,
STILL MORE FOR MYTHS IN HOLY SCRIPTURE.
–C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (Macmillan, 1947), p. 59–

I CANNOT GIVE PEDERASTY (PEDOPHILIA) 
ANYTHING LIKE A FIRST PLACE AMONG THE EVILS…
I THINK THAT OF VERY LITTLE RELEVANCE
TO MORAL JUDGMENT.
–C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1955), p. 104–

He who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who loves son or daughter
more than Me is not worthy of Me.
–Matthew 10:37 (NKJV)–

Be still,
and know that I am God.
–Psalm 46:10 (NKJV)–

The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of God.
–Romans 8:16 (NKJV)–

Looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith.
–Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV)–

⁴ Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. ⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
–Isaiah 53:4-6 (Douay-Rheims)–

The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant of Scripture,
but repugnant to the Word of God.
–The Articles of Religion,
XIV. Of Purgatory.–

The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring and showing that it has been remitted by God; or, to be sure, by remitting guilt in cases reserved to his judgment.
–Martin Luther,
The 95 Theses–

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, “Antinomianism.” The bibliography of this article refers favorably to Samuel Rutherford, Richard Baxter, and John Fletcher–the first two were Puritan preachers, the last was a Methodist preacher and a personal friend of John Wesley. Puritanism and Wesleyanism are agreed with Catholicism against all forms of antinomianism (cheap grace and easy-believism). In other words, there is agreement that Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection are meant to accomplish salvation from Hell, and the forgiveness of believers’ sins, which result in real communion with the Spirit of God, a transformed life, and growth in holiness and obedience to God through Scripture reading.