Wesley Corpus

SERMQN iX. the least, if thy mercies! Or if the whole mite of out love could repay those we have already received, is thine arm shortened? Is not the omnipotent God ahle is he not will ing nay, has he not,; sworn, to render us a thousand fold for every particle of love we give him, throughout a blissful eternity ? Can we withhold from Him one atom from ;the whole mass without tearing; a ; star from;) our own crown ? and shall it be thought unreason able that he should demand the whole ?.-that he should require all our love ? Yea! worthy art thou, O Lord, -of .all- the love of all the creatures thou hastmade;!; especially of those whom Thou hast redeemed ! whom Thou hast guided by thy council, and wilt hereafter, re ceive Jnto glory ! v The grand objection which has been fre quently made against this sense of the great commandment (to which most others are easily reducible) and which I proposed to consider in the third place, is this, " That did it oblige us so to love God with all our heart as to love nothing but for his sake, and in order to the love of Him, such an obligation would be destructive