Wesleyan Theology

BENJAMIN CALAMY ABRIDGED AND REVISED BY JOHN WESLEY
[This Sermon was originally written by Benjamin Calamy, D.D., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London. It occurs, p. 275, in a volume of Sermons which bears his name, published in 1704; and is here abridged and revised by Mr. Wesley. -- EDIT.]

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732

"But some man will say, how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come" 1 Cor. 15:35.

PREACHED ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. JOHN FLETCHER VICAR OF MADELEY, SHROPSHIRE

"If riches increase, set not thine heart upon them." Ps. 62:10

"The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it" Jer. 17:9.

"How camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment Matt. 22:12.

"But God said unto him, Thou fool!" Luke 12:20.

"If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matt. 6:22, 23.

Preached at the Chapel in Tottenham-Court Road on Sunday, November 18, 1770 and at the Tabernacle, near Moorfields, on Friday, November 23, 1770.

"Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" Num. 23:10.

PREACHED AT SAVANNAH, FEBRUARY 20, 1736

"Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." 1 Cor. 13:3