Child of the devil
If he does not now bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God, O that he might convince you, you poor unawakened sinner, by his demonstration and power, that you are a child of the devil. O that, as I prophesy, there might now be a noise and a shaking, and that the bones might come together, bone to its bone. Then come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. And do not harden your hearts, and do not resist the Holy Ghost, who even now has come to convince you of sin, because you do not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1771 text
12. If he doth not now bear witness with thy spirit, that thou art a child of God, O that he might convince thee, thou poor unawakened sinner, by his demonstration and power, that thou art a child of the devil! O that as I prophesy, there might now be a noise and a shaking, and may the bones come together, bone to his bone. Then come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live! And do not ye harden your hearts, and resist the Holy Ghost, who even now is come to convince you of sin, because you believe not on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.
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