Christian Perfection and John Wesley (6)

The “sense” of the definition of sin that Wesley is contending for, is that sin is a “voluntary transgression of a known law”. And this relates to a person’s perceiving themselves to have kept, and that they are keeping, this known law perfectly; that is, without sinning against God or man. It is Wesley’s understanding of what sin is that allows him to think that a person can reach perfection; be free from sin, in their obedience before God. They may attain this state and be in it all their days he says, when they reach that point. I believe that Wesley is fooling himself and misleading others.