Tuesday, June 37.--[From a letter "to a pious and sensible woman"] "By Christian perfection, I mean 1) loving God with all our heart. Do you object to this? I mean 2) a heart
and life all devoted to God. Do you desire less? I mean 3) regaining the whole image of God.
What objection to this? I mean 4) having all the mind that was in Christ. Is this going too
far? I mean 5) walking uniformly as Christ walked. And this surely no Christian will object
to. If anyone means anything more or anything else by perfection, I have no concern with
it. But if this is wrong, yet what need of this heat about it, this violence, I had almost said,
fury of opposition, carried so far as even not to lay out anything with this man, or that woman, who professes it?"
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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