Yet the enemy injected a fear: "If thou dost believe, why is there not a more sensible change?" I answered, (yet not I): "That I know not. But this I know: I now have peace with God. And I sin not to-day, and Jesus has forbid me to take thought for the morrow."
"But is not any sort of fear," continued the tempter, "a proof that thou dost not believe?" I desired my Master to answer for me, and opened his Book upon those words of St. Paul, 'Without were fightings, within were fears.' Then, inferred I, well might my fears be within me, but I must go on and tread them under my feet.
The Journal of John Wesley, May 25, 1738
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