Wesley Corpus

others, are required to keep a single eye in your conversations. Whether devotion or busi ness be the subject, or whether you converse for social enjoyment and recreation, in what ever case, you are enjoined to aim at the glory of God. Any other motive is evil, and comes from evil : it is an idle word, or conversation, rather, as the term should be translated ; and of every such idle word, our Lord plainly tells us, we shall give an account at the day of judg ment. I have now laid before you, in the plainest manner I was able, the directions wherein this single intention must be observed ; nothing re mains but to exhort you instantly, zealously, and diligently, to practise them. The God of your fathers hath lately given you a most gracious testimony that he hath not forsaken you or your children. Your eyes have seen that " his ears are not heavy that they should not hear, neither his hand short ened that it cannot save." You have cried unto him in your trouble, and he hath delivered you out of your distress. He hath led you through the terrors of the great deep ; he there