Wesley Corpus

subordinated to the end of our being ? No, we have yet a more certain word of direction,; the very terms are, " whatever ye do." This commandment indeed is exceedingly wide; not a word of our tongue, not a thought of our hearty can escape it : do ye act, do ye speak, do ye reas6n, do ye love ? do all to the glory of God. It is true that, if the literal sense of these Scriptureswere absurd,and apparentlycontraryto rea son, we should be obliged not to interpret them according ho the letter, but to seek for a looser meaning ': to guard those, therefore, who desire to love God, even as he requires, from this spe cious pretence for idolatry, I proceed to show that this very sense is not contrary, but agree able to the strictest reason. And how reason able it is, so to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our strength, as to love nothing else but for his sake and in sub ordination to the love of him, may appear, First, from the general acknowledgment of all men, that we ought to love nothing above God. This is granted to be of the last concern ; all men confess that on this ' eternity depends.