Satisfied in his sins
By one who sleeps, then, we are to understand, and would to God we all might understand it, a sinner satisfied in his sins, content to remain in his fallen state, to live and die without the image of God. He is ignorant both of his disease and of the only remedy for it. He never was warned, or he never regarded the warning voice of God, to flee from the wrath to come. He never yet saw that he was in danger of hell-fire, or cried out in the earnestness of his soul, What must I do to be saved?
1771 text
4. By one who sleeps we are therefore to understand (and would to God we might all understand it!) A sinner satisfied in his sins; contented to remain in his fallen state, to live and die without the image of God: one who is ignorant both of his disease, and of the only remedy for it: one who never was warned, or never regarded the warning voice of God, to flee from the wrath to come: one that never yet saw he was in danger of hell-fire, or cried out in the earnestness of his soul, What must I do to be saved?
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Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.
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