No compliment
And it is no compliment which the men of the world pay you in this. They, for once, mean what they say. They not only affirm but cordially believe that every man is beside himself who says the love of God is shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Spirit given to him (Romans 5:5), and that God has enabled him to rejoice in Christ with joy unspeakable and full of glory (1 Peter 1:8). If a man is indeed alive to God and dead to all things here below; if he continually sees him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:27), and accordingly walks by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7) — then they account it a clear case: beyond all dispute, much religion has made him mad.
1771 text
2. And it is no compliment which the men of the world pay you herein. They, for once, mean what they say. They not only affirm, but cordially believe, that every man is beside himself, who says, the love of God is shed abroad in his heart, by the Holy Ghost given unto him, and that God has enabled him to rejoice in Christ, with joy unspeakable and full of glory. If a man is indeed alive to God, and dead to all things here below; if he continually sees him that is invisible, and accordingly walks by faith and not by sight: then they account it a clear case: beyond all dispute, much religion hath made him mad.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 37 in the 1771 Works. Acts 26:24.
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