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man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a ransom

for all.” Titus 2:11; 1 Timothy 2:3-6. The

Spirit of God is freely bestowed to enable

every man to lay hold upon the means of

salvation. Thus Christ, “the true Light,”

“lighteth every man that cometh into the

world.” John 1:9. Men fail of salvation

through their own willful refusal of the gift of

life.

In answer to the claim that at the death of

Christ the precepts of the Decalogue had

been abolished with the ceremonial law,

Wesley said: “The moral law, contained in the

Ten Commandments and enforced by the

prophets, He did not take away. It was not the

design of His coming to revoke any part of

this. This is a law which never can be broken,

which ‘stands fast as the faithful witness in

heaven.’ ... This was from the beginning of the