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Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of the Trial of those who think they are moved by the Holy Ghost to Preach

Question 1. How shall we try those who profess to be moved by the to preach?

Answer

Let them be asked the following questions, viz. Do they know God as a pardoning God? Have they the love of God in them? Do they desire and seek nothing but God? And are they holy in all manner of ?

Have they gifts (as well as ) for the work? Have they (in some tolerable degree) a clear, sound understanding, a right judgment in the things of God, a just conception of salvation by faith? And has God given them any degree of utterance? Do they speak justly, readily, clearly?

Have they fruit? Are any truly convinced of sin, and to God by their preaching?

As long as these three marks concur in any one, we believe he is called of God to preach. These we receive as sufficient proof that he is moved by the holy Ghost.