Excerpt from John Wesley’s Sermon, The Marks of the New Birth
“The necessary fruit of this love of God is the love of our neighbor, of every sould which God hath made… a love whereby we love every man as ourselves – as we love our own souls. Nay, our Lord has expressed it still more strongly, teaching us to ‘love one another even as he hath loved us.’ Accordingly the commandment written in the hearts of ll those that love God is no other than this, ‘As I have loved you, so love ye one another.’ Now ‘herein perceive we the love of God, in that he laid down his life for us. We ought’, then, as the Apostle justly infers, ‘to lay down our lives for our brethren’ (1 John 3:16).
