Who Said That?

Who said this?

Q. What is the direct antidote to . . . the doctrine of heart-holiness?

A.  Calvinism:  All the devices of Satan . . . have done far less toward stopping this work of God, than that single doctrine.  It strikes at the root of salvation from sin, previous to glory (death), putting the matter on quite another issue.

Q.  But wherein lie the charms of this doctrine?  What makes men swallow it so greedily?

A.  (1)  It seems to magnify Christ; although in reality it supposes him to have died in vain.  For the absolutely elect must have been saved without him; and the non-elect cannot be saved by him.

(2)  It is highly pleasing to the flesh and blood, final perseverance in particular.

Can you guess who said this?  No cheating--google searches or otherwise!

Update on Monday, May 1, 2006 at 10:40AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As many of you correctly guessed, these words come from Rod's Rosenbladt's favorite Arminian, John Wesley.  The quotation comes from the Methodist Minutes (Wesley's Works, Vol. VIII, 336).

Comments

[Mike Ratliff]

How about Dave Hunt?

[Jeff Spry]

It's too well-worded (even archaic sounding) to come from the pen of Hunt. I'd guess one of the much earlier opponents of Calvinism. Finney? Wesley?

[Jeremy]

John Wesley?

["lee n. field"]

In the form of a catechism in somewhat antique English. Hmm.

One of the Wesley's?

I'll go Google now. . .

[Mike Ratliff]

I change my plea. John Wesly. You are right, Dave Hunt isn't that eloquent.

[Jim Vellenga]

I would guess John Wesley as well.

[Larry]

Wesley was much more congenial than that, wasn't he? It sounds like somethign Hunt would say, but it sounds way too eloquent, as someone pointed out already. Hunt is like a bull in a china shop with his words.

[Mr. Eko]

Tim LaHaye? He wrote the foreward to Hunt's book against Calvinism...

[Richard]

Wesley--it does sound too archaic for the current group of anti-Calvin pests.