John Wesley Studies

Running Head: JOHN WESLEY STUDIES
John Wesley Studies
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Table of Contents
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
a) Significance of speech, justice, mercy and truth.....................................................................3
b) Necessity for preachers to guard their speech, be just and love mercy and truth....................4
c) Relation of the scripture passages regarding personal experiences and life............................4
2. Discussion on the origin of the Methodist local preachers..........................................................5
a) Evolution and growth of the local preachers in the MCSA.....................................................5
b) Wesleyan understanding of being morally good.....................................................................5
3. Explanation of the understanding................................................................................................6
a) Social Holiness........................................................................................................................6
b) Role of local preachers in urban and rural settings.................................................................6
c) Preaching outside the formal church setting............................................................................6
Reference List..................................................................................................................................8

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Question 1
a) Significance of speech, justice, mercy and truth
In the assertion of these aspects, Wesley goes beyond the acclamation of holiness as love
and goes on to explicate the content that constitutes love. This is evident in the quotes of Wesley
in his Sermon 8, where he states that:
“By religion I mean the love of God and man, filling the heart and governing the life.
The sure effect of this is the uniform practice of justice, mercy, and truth. This is the very
essence of it, the height and depth of religion, detached from this or that opinion, and from all
particular modes of worship”.
In fact in the sermon stated, ‘On living without God’, it was stared that there can nothing
be more certain that the aspect that there is no existence of true Christianity without inward
experience as well as outward practice of the aspects like justice, mercy as well as truth”. This
triad consisting of justice, mercy as well as truth recurring frequently in the writings of Wesley,
has been neglected in the interpretations of the understanding of holiness by Wesley (Burdon
2016).
The significance of these aspects stems out of the fact that the beliefs of Wesley are rooted in the
character of God. In fact, Wesley et al. (2015), states that the aspects like justice, mercy as well
as truth are the moral attributes associated with God. In alignment, Forsaith (2017) states that as
a summarization of the moral character of God, these are also the aspects related to the moral
imagery of god which were utilized in the creation of humanity.