The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 06 (of 32)Wesley, John
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The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 06 (of 32)
Wesley, John
Methodist Church; Theology -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- History -- 18th century
There are some other egregious errors which I intended to have remarked,
but I am already got beyond the proper bounds of a letter.――But holy
_David_’s case, I cannot but mention, as sufficient to have deterred
the Doctor from an hypothesis, which has obliged him to place this
sweet finger of _Israel_ amongst those, who had not the least thought
of any eternal relation to God. This holy _David_, the type of Christ,
“who knew that God had sworn with an oath, that out of the fruit of
his loins, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne:” this great
prophet, who foretold the resurrection of Christ, _that his soul was
not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption_; this _David_,
thus deep in the counsels of God, and acquainted with the great article
of the resurrection, this spiritual, typical, prophesying _David_, is,
for the sake of the Doctor’s project, crowded amongst those, who were
not allowed to have any other relation to God, or any thing else to
hope from him, or thank him for, but the blessings of a temporal life,
till death had put the same end, to all of _David_, as it did to those
few sheep, that he once kept. And what is still worse, the same _David_
is made the most zealous preacher of the folly of fearing, or hoping
for any thing after death: and is appealed to by the Doctor, and his
assistant, as giving the most full evidence against all happiness,
but that of this life, and represented in his divine transports, as
setting forth the wisdom of believing that the life of man ends like
that of rotten sheep, in a death _that_ brings him into the dark land
of forgetfulness; singing gloriously, “the dead praise not the Lord,
neither any that go down into silence. In death there is no remembrance
of thee: in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?”
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