What, finally was Wesley's idea in choosing this text, with which to storm Sandgate for God? Wesley had a shrewd and deep knowledge of human nature. He knew that mere reasoning never makes men e@ their lives. the heart and prick the conscience, to make bad men good. You must bring some tremendous moral power and motive to bear on them. And he knew no greater moral power than this, to flood their souls with the thought of the mighty self-sacrificing love of God for them. That was his idea. And the orthodox Wesley is supported by a brilffant writer, far from orthodox. In "Ecce Homo" Professor Seeley says, that the Christian idea is to creats in us sinners the sense of a "tremendous obligation," "I have done this for thee, what hast thou done for me"? It is so.
men are capable of being moved at all, this mighty fact will da it, if anything will,. that God shouldered the burden of our sins; "he was wounded for our
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