Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

In his sermon on the Scripture Way of Salvation, first published in 1765, he says:
"I have continually testified, in private and in public, that we are sanctified, as well as justified,
by faith."
Then, in the conclusion of his Plain Account, he says:
"It is the doctrine of St. Paul, St. James, St. Peter, and St. John, and no otherwise Mr. Wesley's
than as it is of every one who preaches the pure and whole gospel. I tell you, as plain as I can speak,
there and when I found this. I found it in the oracles of God, in the Old and New Testaments, when
I read them with no other view or desire than to save my own soul."
That does not look like "his ideas of instantaneous sanctification were derived mainly from certain
Methodists' professing to have experienced it, and then the Bible was examined to see if it taught the
doctrine," as Dr. Tillett says and Tyerman intimates. On the contrary, Mr. Wesley says he got his
"ideas" from "the Old and New Testaments," and not "from certain Methodists' professing to have
experienced it." Also that he go them from the Bible when he "read it with no other view or desire
than to save his own soul." Not, as Dr. Tillett says, "to see if it taught the doctrine" which he had
gotten out of the experience of others; or, as Dr. Mudge says, because he "felt bound to adapt his
teaching" to the "rudimentary comprehension" of his "mass of very ignorant followers, whose crude,
unreliable, undiscriminating testimonies on the subject he felt bound to accept in lieu of anything
better." He found something "better" in the Bible.
As if he were answering the charges of these writers, he virtually says that it was not with such
"view or desire" that he "examined" or "read" the Bible, but that he found this doctrine therein
"above twenty years" before most of these professions were made. And there is no intimation that
he regarded such professions as "better" than the Bible teaching. No doubt Mr. Wesley's faith in this
doctrine of instantaneous sanctification was greatly strengthened by the experience and testimony
of these witnesses, but it did not originate in them. But, as we have seen, if Mr. Wesley had pursued
the course indicated by Dr. Tillett, he would have played the part of a wise philosopher, and the
conclusions reached by such course would have been rational and sound.
2. Let us look for a minute at the character and competency of Mr. Wesley's witnesses, and the
import of their testimony. As we have seen, Dr. Mudge disparages them and suggests their
incompetency. It is true that, as a rule, they were plain and unlearned people, but it does not
necessarily follow that their "testimonies" were hence "unreliable" and "undiscriminating." Mr.
Wesley says:
"We asked them the most searching questions we could devise. They answered every one without
hesitation and with the utmost simplicity, so that we were fully persuaded that they did not deceive
themselves."