To deny it is to deny justification
Everyone, therefore, who denies the existence of such a testimony does in effect deny justification by faith. It follows that either he never experienced this, either he never was justified, or that he has forgotten, as Saint Peter speaks in an old Greek line, the purification from his former sins. He has forgotten the experience he then had himself, the manner in which God worked in his own soul, when his former sins were blotted out.
1771 text
8. Every one therefore who denies the existence of such a testimony, does in effect deny justification by faith. It follows, that either he never experienced this, either he never was justified, or that he has forgotten, (as St. Peter speaks,) τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι ἁμαρτιῶν, the purification from his former sins, the experience he then had himself, the manner wherein God wrought in his own soul, when his former sins were blotted out.
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Sermon 11 in the 1771 Works. Romans 8:16. The second discourse on the witness of the Spirit.
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