{"id":2869,"date":"2013-01-18T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2013-01-18T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:31:12","slug":"sermon-review-gods-approbation-of-his-works-by-john-wesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Review: God's Approbation of His Works by John Wesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Milton's Paradise Lost is praised as comparable to the goodness of God's creation.<\/p>\n<p>So, John Wesley concluded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/wesley\/sermons.vi.iii.html#vi.iii-p0.1\" target=\"_blank\">4 elements: earth, water, air and fire <\/a>as the building blocks of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting Note, or question:<br \/>\n<em>And even in paradise \u201cAdam slept,\u201d (<a id=\"vi.iii-p16.1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/study\/Genesis_2:21\" name=\"_Gen_2_21_0_0\">Gen. 2:21<\/a>, ) before he sinned: Sleep, therefore, belonged to innocent human nature. Yet I do not apprehend it can be inferred from hence, that there is either darkness or sleep in heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good ending:<br \/>\n<em>by his apostasy from God, he threw not only himself, but likewise the whole creation, which was intimately connected with him, into disorder, misery, death;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: Wesley would not have believed in evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Milton's Paradise Lost is praised as comparable to the goodness of God's creation. So, John Wesley concluded the 4 elements: earth, water, air and fire as the building blocks of the cosmos. An interesting Note, or question: And even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2869\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}