Wesley Corpus

of reflection would naturally draw from what has been said of it. Who is sufficient for these things ? who is equal to so vast an undertak ing ? We have heard indeed that it is easy for a designing man to lead others whither he pleases if his object be to lead them into evil, to bring them into just what opinions he chooses, and set their affections by his own. But he who has seen how slowly a confused appre hension is cleared, or a prejudiced judgment rectified, and how unwillingly men admit a truth which they have long despised, even as it were a sword piercing through their hearts to rend asunder a darling error ; he who has observed that a wicked man is almost as easily induced to cut off a right hand, or pluck out a right eye, as to set his affections on things above, and mortify his beloved lusts ; in a word, he who knows that the persuading an ungodly man to be happy is the persuading him out of his fancy, judgment, and incli nation, all which must take an entirely con trary bias, must undergo such a change as is from death to life ; he knows that the winning a soul is a work of no common, no human