Friday, December 05, 2008

On Salvation

By salvation I mean, not barely, according to the vulgar notion, deliverance from hell, or going to heaven; but present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of the divine nature; the renewal of our souls after the image of God, in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy and truth.

John Wesley, "A Further Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion"

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