Works - 1878 Author:John Wesley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: livcth for ever and ever, " Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." 11. May we all thus experience what it is to be, not almost onl... more »y, but altogether Christians; being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus; knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ; rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost given unto us! SERMON III. AWAKE, THOU THAT SLEEPEST: PBEACHED ON SUNDAY, APRIL 4,1742, BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. BY THE REV. CHARLES WESLEY, M. A., STUDENT OF CHRIST-CHUBCH. " Awake, thou that steepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." Ephesians v. 14. In discoursing on these words, I shall, with the help of God, First. Describe the sleepers, to whom they are spoken: Secondly. Enforce the exhortation, " Awake, thou that sleep- est, and arise from the dead:" And, Thirdly. Explain the promise made to such as do awake and arise: " Christ shall give thee light." 1. 1. And, First, as to the sleepers here spoken to. By sleep is signified the natural state of man; that deep sleep of the soul, into which the sin of Adam hath cast all who spring from his loins; that supineness, indolence, and stupidity, that insensibility of his real condition, wherein every man comes into the world, and continues till the voice of God awakes him. 2. Now, " they that sleep, sleep in the night." The state of nature is a state of utter darkness; a state wherein " darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people." The poorunawakened sinner, how much knowledge soever he may have as to other things, has no knowledge of himself: In this respect " he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." He knows not that...« less