1. Dreams and Visions

2. Institutional, Historical, Traditional Intellectual Construction and Criticism Emotional and Volitional

3. Mysticism: theories about... practices for pursuing... accounts of... …the experience of affective intimacy with, and abandonment to, God? …the experience of the presence of God (McGinn)?

6. The Rule Experience Scripture & Doctrine

7. Hortus (garden): Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum (Vulgate SofS 5.1, my beloved has come into his garden); Cellaria (storerooms): Introduxit me rex in cellaria sua (Vulgate SofS 1.3, the king has led me into his storerooms); Cubiculum (bed-chamber): Et in cubiculum genitricis meae (Vulgate SofS 3.4, and in my mother’s bedroom).

9. He said, 'My brother, I must first ask you one or two questions. Have you the witness within yourself? Does the Spirit of God bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God?' I was surprised, and knew not what to answer. He observed it, and asked, 'Do you know Jesus Christ?' I paused, and said, 'I know he is the Saviour of the world.' 'True', replied he, 'but do you know he has saved you?' I answered, 'I hope he has died to save me.' He only added, 'Do you know yourself?' I said, 'I do.' But I fear they were vain words, August Spangenburg to John Wesley.

10. “The power of God fell upon us. One, and another, and another sunk to the earth. You might see them dropping on all sides as thunderstruck. One cried out aloud. I went and prayed over her and she received joy in the Holy Ghost. A second falling into the same agony, we turned to her... a young woman was seized with such pangs as I never saw before. And in a quarter of an hour she had a new song in her mouth,” John Wesley.

11. “I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist Preachers. Their doctrines are most repulsive and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors, in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and do away with all distinctions. It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl the earth,” the Duchess of Buckingham to Lady Selina Hastings.

12. “We must be holy in heart and life before we can be conscious that we are so. But we must love God before we can be holy at all, this being the root of all holiness. Now we cannot love God till we know he loves us: 'We love him, because he first loved us.' And we cannot know his love to us till his Spirit witnesses it to our spirit. Till then we cannot believe it; we cannot say, 'The life which I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me,” John Wesley.

13. Spirit Saving FaithFruit of the Spirit

14. The Work of the Spirit JustificationSanctification Outward Deeds Inward Disposition Subjective (Assurance) Objective Regeneration