Wesley Corpus

Reason, therefore, must direct us to ensure this point, to risk no hazard of so mighty a stake; whatever we do, ,to secure from all pos sible danger our passage into a happy, futurity, But this cannot b,e., done while ,we entertain any love insubordinate to the love of God ; for; while we love any object without reference tp Hjiji,; we are never certain that we shall not love it above him. So long as the very disease, of our nature is the loving the creature for its, own sake; so long as this love so imperceptibly steals upon us, that it is impossible to fix its bounds and to say, "Hitherto sh alt thou go and no further ;" it is equally impossible that we should be safe from loving it more than, God. If reason then prohibits our running the, least hazard of loving any thing more than God, and if we must be in imminent danger of doing soj while we love any thing without reference to him, then reason, as well as the Holy Scriptures, requires that we should so. love God with all our hearts, as to love nothing but for his sake, and in subordination to the love of him.