Wesley Corpus

wholly with God, as many things as he loved besides him, so many ways would he live open to disappointment, and fear, and grief, and misery. But so long as he has one object of his love, and regards all things else only as they minister unto it, his heart standeth fast ; for he is assured that neither life nor death, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate him from the love of God. I shall conclude in the words of that excel lent man above cited, who so well practised what he taught, " Ye have heard what is the full and true extent of divine love, and the full and true import of the great command ment a commandment worthy of Him that gave it, and worthy of the solemn mark of attention wherewith it was more than once delivered: " Hear, O Israel ! " and let all the whole creation hear, and silently and reverently attend to this great law, which (lest any should fancy himself himself unconcerned in it) expressly is directed to every creature; " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all