Our Lord himself taught us to use the expression. And we ought never to be ashamed of it. We ought steadily to assert, on his authority that if a man is not ' faithful in the unrighteous mammon, God will not give him the true riches. With regard to working for life. And, in fact, every believer, till he comes to glory, works for as well as from life.
Nothing can be more false.
This restatement of doctrine was intended for the preachers, and as a counterblast to antinomianism. Wesley seldom used the former term, on account of its frequent abuse, but the tenor of his preaching for thirty years and his recent sermon on the death of Whitefield ought to have convinced them of his loyalty to the great doctrine of the Reformation, justification by faith. People, it seems, may now be 'in Christ' without being new creatures, and new creatures without casting old things away. They may be God's children without God's image. This was Fleteher's main reason for the publication of the five pamphlets in which he defended the chief points of the Methodist belief with matchless logic and the finest literary expression.