Wesley Corpus

words, all commentators agree that they mean at least thus much we must not love anything more than God ; we may not love the creature above the Creator; nay, that we must not love any thing so much as Him that he claims of us a love of pre eminence ; that we must reserve for him the highest seat in our hearts, the largest and choicest share of our affection. They are all likewise agreed that we may en tertain no love which is contrary to the love of Him ; that whatever affection we find, or have reason to suspect, will either prevent the kindling of the divine flame, or quench it when kindled, or any way obstruct its in crease, or diminish its heat or brightness to that affection we must not give place, no, not for a moment, but immediately resist it with all our might. But we must rise higher than this ; or we shall never attain the plain sense of the com mand, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength ;" which imports in ordinary construction (to use the words of a great master of reason as well