Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X

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Author: John Wesley

VII.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH

Is Justification by Faitharticulus stantis vel cadentis Ecclesiae?

32. In the beginning of the year 1738, I believed it was so. Soon after I found reason to doubt. Since that time I have not varied. "Nay, but in the year 1763 you say, ’This is the name whereby he shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. A truth this, of which may be affirmed, (what Luther affirms of a truth nearly connected with it, justification by faith,) it is articulus stantis vel cadentis Ecclesiae. 52 It is certainly the pillar and ground of that faith of which alone cometh salvation."’ (Farrago, page 15.)

I answered: "It is certain, here is a seeming contradiction; but it is not a real one; for these two opposite propositions do not speak of the same thing. The latter speaks of justification by faith; the former, of trusting in the righteousness or merits of Christ. (Justification by faith is only mentioned incidentally in a parenthesis.) Now, although Mr. Law denied justification by faith, he might trust in the merits of Christ. It is this, and this only, that I affirm (whatever Luther does) to be articulus stantis vel cadentis Ecclesiae." (Remarks, page 391.)

But Mr. Hill thinks, "justification by faith, and by trusting in the merits of Christ, are all one." (Farrago, page 16.) Be they or not, I still think, "some may doubt of justification by faith, and yet not perish everlastingly." Does Mr. Hill judge that such an one cannot be saved? that all Mystics (as well as Mr. Law) go to hell?

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Chicago: John Wesley, "VII. Justification by Faith," Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X, ed. Thomas Jackson in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872), Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3URMRQDDH5YDUFY.

MLA: Wesley, John. "VII. Justification by Faith." Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X, edited by Thomas Jackson, in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X, London, Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3URMRQDDH5YDUFY.

Harvard: Wesley, J, 'VII. Justification by Faith' in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X, ed. . cited in 1872, Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume X, Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, London. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3URMRQDDH5YDUFY.