us grow in grace. Even the great truth, that "Christ is the end of the law,"'
1 Corinthians 13. You can go no higher than this until you are carried into Abraham's bosom.
Abraham's bosom: See Luke 16:19-31.
I say one more time, beware of enthusiasm. It is the imagining that you have the gift of prophesying, or of discerning of spirits, which I do not believe that even one of you has or has ever had yet. Beware of judging people to be either right or wrong according to your own feelings.
This is not a scriptural way of judging. Keep close to "the law and to the testimony!"' antinomianism: the belief that those saved by grace are thus freed from any scriptural, civil, or moral laws and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace . 34. What is the third advice you would give those who moral law, law of love: The moral law is the Law given by God through Moses. Its purpose is threehave fallen from grace?
. Beware of antinomianism, or "canceling out any part of the law through faith."* Enthusiasm naturally leads to fold: this. Indeed they can hardly be separated. This may creep up on you in a thousand ways. Therefore, you cannot be too alert against it. Be on your guard against everything, whether in principle or practice, that resembles it at all.
Even the great truth, that "Christ is the end of the law,"' may betray us into antinomianism if we do not consider
1. to convict of sin 2. to lead us to Christ 3. to keep us with Christ and help us grow in grace.
The law of love is described in that he has adopted every point of the moral law and grafted it into the law of love.
1 Corinthians 13 and summarized in the Great Commandment to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. The two are, Beware of thinking, "Because I am filled with love, I don't need to have so much holiness. Because I pray always, I don't need a set time for private prayer. Because
I am always mindful of my behavior, I don't need personal self-examination." Let us "magnify the law," the whole written word, "and make it honorable."'® Let this be our proclamation: "I prize your commandments above gold or precious stones. O what love I have for your law!
I study in it all day long." for Wesley, interrelated and interdependent. cockatrice: a fabled reptile hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg and having the power to kill by Beware of antinomian books. They contain many excellent things, and this makes them all the more dangerits glance or breath. In Scripture, cockatrice refers to any venomous ous. O be warned in time! Do not play with fire. Do not put your hand on the hole of a cockatrice's den. creature.
I beg you, beware of bigotry. Do not confine your love or generosity only to Methodists, much less to that very small part of them who seem to be renewed in love, or to those who believe yours and their testimony. Do not make shibboleth: a slogan or password that sets you apart from others, making them outsiders. From Judges 12:6:
"They said to him, "Then say Shibbothis your shibboleth! Beware of stillness. It is wrong to refrain from the means of grace for false reasons. Here is one example out of many: One may say, "You have received a great blessing. But you began to talk about it and to do this and that good work. Consequently, you leth,' and he said, 'Sibboleth,' for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and killed him." lost it. You should have been still."
Beware of self-indulgence. Some even make a virtue of it, laughing at self-denial and taking up the cross daily, at fasting or abstinence.
Beware of intolerance. Abstain from thinking or calling people blind, dead, fallen, or "enemies to the work" who in any way oppose you, whether in belief or practice.
Once more, beware of solifidianism. Refrain from crying nothing but, "Believe, believe!" and condemning those who speak in a more scriptural way as being ignorant or