Wesley Corpus

assurance of not being snatched away in the midst of this moment, or indeed at the very commencement of it when he saw that all men were placed on a narrow, weak, tottering bridge, either end of which was swallowed up in eternity ! that the waves and storms that passed over it were continually bearing away one after another in an hour when they ex pected it not ; and that those who yet stood knew not but they should plunge into the great gulf the very next instant, but well knew that if they fell before they had finished the end of their existence they were lost, destroyed, undone for ever ! How would all utterance, nay, all idea be lost ! how would he express, how would he conceive the senselessness, the madness, of those creatures who, being in such a situation, could think of any thing, could speak of any thing else, could do any thing else besides, could find time for any other design or care, but of ensuring the one thing needful ! It cannot, therefore, be an improper em ployment, First, to observe what this one thing is; and,