Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: 
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,  
        Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
          And cometh from afar: 
        Not in entire forgetfulness, 
        And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory do we come  

By salvation, Wesley meant: ‘not barely, according to the vulgar notion, deliverance from hell, or going to heaven; but a present deliverance from sin…’” (Melvin E. Dieter)