Wesley Corpus

would be the greatest evil that could befall us. Such an undistinguishing tenderness to the body would be an irreparable injury to the soul : if the one were continually com forted here, both might hereafter he tor mented. Neither would it be kindness thus to exempt us from spiritual, any more than from temporal danger to deliver the soul from all temptation, any more than the body from all pain. Were the angels of God en joined to do this, as we should be without trial so should we be without choice, and we are commanded " to choose whom we will serve." " Behold I have set before thee life and death, therefore choose life." Had we been without the power of choice, we must have been content with some lower happiness than that we now may hope to be partakers of, and which is the natural necessary result of virtue of obedience to the divine law, which divine grace will enable every soul to keep who sincerely implores this aid. But although for these reasons (and who knows how many others the divine wisdom may have in view ?) the blessed angels may not always prevent sin