Though in the pastorate for a number of years...
Though in the pastorate for a number of years, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, still harbored doubts about his faith and the assurance of his salvation. At five in the morning on May 24, 1738, he awoke and randomly opened his Bible, as was his custom, and read these words: "Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in this world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4).