ARVID GRADIN
(One of the Moravian Brethren)

 

ARVID GRADIN
(One of the Moravian Brethren)

In 1738 John Wesley visited the Moravian colony in Germany. While there at Hernhutt he

recorded the following testimony of Arvid Gradin, A Swede, who had entered in the the
experience of full assurance of faith:

“I had from our Lord what I asked of him, the “plerophoria pistoos” (written in Greek), the

fullness of faith, which is repose in the blood of Christ: a firm confidence in God and persuasion
of His favour, with a deliverance from every fleshly desire, and a cessation of all, even inward
sins. In a word, my heart, which before was agitated like a trouble sea, was in perfect quietness
like the sea when it is serene and calm.”

“This,” said Wesley, “was the first account I ever heard from any living man, of what I had

before learned myself from the oracles of God, and had been praying for, with the little company
of my friends, and expecting for several years.”

Source: “The Life of Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism”
by  Robert Southey

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HOW THEY ENTERED CANAAN
(A Collection of Holiness Experience Accounts)
Compiled by Duane V. Maxey

Vol. I — Named Accounts