Wesley Corpus

or rather that is unstable in his ways, some times walking in one, sometimes in the other. That this is frequently our own unhappy case, experience is sufficient to prove; for not the Almighty himself can make it possible to walk in two contrary ways at the same time. our habitual love must at any one time termi nate either in God or in some of his creatures, and if it terminates in him, then it does not in them ; if in them, not in him. We cannot therefore have two ultimate loves ; and by uncontrovertible consequence, when we have any ultimate love but that of God, the love of God is not in us. Nor can it be affirmed with truth, that there may exist an insubordinate which is not an ultimate love ; for as every end which is subordinate to no other is itself an ultimate end, so every love which is subordinate is not an ultimate end: ultimate and subordinate being con tradictory terms, between which there is no mean. But who is this, touching whom we thus coldly debate whether he should wholly pos sess or only share our affection ? Is it not the