Wesley Corpus

The same truth may be evidently inferred from that further concession made by all men, " that we may not entertain any love which is contrary to, or subversive of, the love of God which does, directly or remotely tend to it for all love which does either, obstructs it: It it does not lessen what we have already at tained, it prevents our attaining what we other wise might attain ; for the force of a divided, can never be equal to a united heart ; nor is it possible that a part of our strength should Carry us so far as the whole. But this is not the heaviest charge against that love of the creature which is not con ducive to the love of God. No, it is not only obstructive, but subversive of it. They are in consistent and incompatible. Many loves in deed may consist in the same heart, so they be all subordinate to one ; but two ultimate loves are as flat a contradiction as two firsts and two lasts: so that when the son of Sirach says, " Woe be the fearful hearts and faint hands, and the sinner which goeth two ways," he can only mean, either he that flatters himself he goes both towards God and towards his idol ;