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Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI
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SERMON XLVI.
THE WILDERNESS STATE.
"Ye now have sorrow: But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you."
John 16:22.
1. After God had wrought a great deliverance for Israel, by bringing them out of the house of bondage, they did not immediately enter into the land which he had promised to their fathers; but "wandered out of the way in the wilderness," and were variously tempted and distressed. In like manner, after God has delivered them that fear him from the bondage of sin and Satan; after they are "justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus," yet not many of them immediately enter into "the rest which remaineth for the people of God." The greater part of them wander, more or less, out of the good way into which he hath brought them. They come, as it were, into a "waste and howling desert," where they are variously tempted and tormented: And this, some, in allusion to the case of the Israelites, have termed, "a wilderness state."
2. Certain it is, that the condition wherein these are has a right to the tenderest compassion. They labor under an evil and sore disease; though one that is not commonly understood; and for this very reason it is the more difficult for them to find a remedy. Being in darkness themselves, they cannot be supposed to understand the nature of their own disorder; and few of their brethren, nay, perhaps, of their teachers, know either what their sickness is, or how to heal it. So much the more need there is to inquire, First, What is the nature of this disease? Secondly, What is the cause? and, Thirdly, What is the cure of it?
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Chicago: John Wesley, "Sermon XLVI. The Wilderness State.," Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI, ed. Thomas Jackson in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872), Original Sources, accessed October 12, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMMQH3P9MJDE15I.
MLA: Wesley, John. "Sermon XLVI. The Wilderness State." Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI, edited by Thomas Jackson, in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI, London, Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872, Original Sources. 12 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMMQH3P9MJDE15I.
Harvard: Wesley, J, 'Sermon XLVI. The Wilderness State.' in Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI, ed. . cited in 1872, Collected Works of John Wesley, Volume VI, Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, London. Original Sources, retrieved 12 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMMQH3P9MJDE15I.
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