Wesley Corpus

SiEllMON H. From that little we have been able to con- ' jecture respecting this one dispensation of Pro vidence as the time when, 1'the mariner how, and the redsons why, the blessed angels have charge to keep good men may we not natu rally infer that we should adore his wisdom and goodness, who hath instituted the services of men and angels in so wonderful an order ! How great is that goodness which hath not left without defence ' his weak arid helpless creatures! How great is that wisdom which 'hath so 'well proportioned the powers of our defenders to their office ! ' How infinitely great are these divine ' attributes which have made ' man serviceable to them, and that such im potent, iriiserable creatures should be the means of conveying a benefit to beings only riot almighty. Hence we may, secondly, infer the weakness of that objection which men ' who pretended to believe a God have often made against his Prc-viderice that it is beneath the Supreme Being, the Mighty Creator, to concern him- : 1 self in our little concerns. "Now supposing 'this (though it be palpably absurd to believe it of Him who is omnipresent as well as omni potent), howypipld it proye Ithat ( chance goyef;ijifjd the ;world ? (since .there is .a particular order of beings (which the Scriptures attest .Jhere j is), tlto .,attend . upon this very thing ; (Vvhore ready op all occasion to assist such jas,(£gd aftd ,will .accept of . their assistance, gdbyj;tjhe .pQwersfw.herewith he hath endued tbsjf(areucjeth/ble (were that the will Jof(.tieii;Jeavenly faster) ,to preserve both the ;.ijatur/d and mpral,world in order,- without the Jnterppflijipn. of his .mighty .power. -We! Hnce, in theiird place, to cpn- . jd.em.n thefply and grxpr of those who intrude . .into theChristian church their own doctrines and ..(coninjndinets ,pf men naipely, ,the worship ping of.ajjgels,; the paying to the creature the , ,jnc,9njnjunicable honour ofthe Creatpr. "Let no .njvan,beguile us of pur(reward " in this " shew of wisdom in will worship .and humility." (Co- .Joflsjans, ii. 23.) .They ke(ep us in. all our ways it .is tue, butwe.Ifnpw whpas given them this , .gracious,jch.arge. The Lord pur God is but one tJferdftyifcthffltytythdp his pleasure; ;JWd if eirping thisj if their obeying his ordier wee a.auflicient reason for u?tp worship them,