John
Wesley (1703-1791)
1725 Read Bishop Jeremy Taylor’s ‘Rules and exercises of holy living and dying’.
1726 Read ‘Christian’s Pattern’ by Kempis
1727-8 Read ‘Christian Perfection’ and a ‘Serious Call’ by William Law.
1728 Ordained into the Anglican church
1735-8 Went to
May 24,
August 1739 visited Herrnhut.
Arvid
Gradin described full assurance of faith as:
"Repose
in the blood of Christ; a firm confidence in God, and persuasion of his favour;
the highest tranquillity, serenity, and peace of mind, with a deliverance from
every fleshly desire, and a cessation of all, even inward sins."
Wesley
upheld the doctrine of Christian perfection throughout his ministry.
1739-1777
repeatedly revised 'A plain account of Christian Perfection'.