John Wesley: Christian Perfection In The London Society

Wesley himself strongly affirmed Christian perfection as a real possibility for every Christian who had been justified by the faith. Wesley defined Christian perfection as pure love that reigns alone in the heart and in the life of an individual.
Wesley's emphasis on a Christian perfection that is to love God with one's whole heart soul and mind and to love ones neighbor as yourself can under attack. Many of the disagreements grew out of a misunderstanding of terminology with perfection understood as a finished and even engelic state after entire sanctification. This misunderstanding was promoted by the London Society in the 1760's. Wesley strongly disiplined them, and dismissed their leaders.
In Wesley's mature thought this sort of grace was