Daily Archives: 26/11/2025

In my last post I showed how the Charismatic “second experience” can be traced back, through John Wesley, to the Moravian conversion/justication/sanctification first experience taught by Count Zinzendorf. I also examined what seems to be a separate tying of conversion to a particular emotional experience by the English Puritans, the foundation of which (I would conjecture) was Martin Luther’s near-pathological sense of guilt. By God’s grace, his dread of damnation led to his rediscovery of salvation by faith alone, and consequent doctrine of assurance, albeit balanced with a life of continual repentance for indwelling sin.