Wesley Corpus

such a one as me, to follow with all possible care and vigilance that wise advice of Mr. Herbert :-- Still let thy mind be bent ; still plotting how, And when, and where, the business may be done. And this, I bless God, I can in some measure do, while I avoid that bane of all religion, the company of good sort of men, as they are called ; persons who have a king to, but no sense of religion. But these insensibly undermine all my resolution, and steal away what little zeal I have. So that I never come from among these saints of the world (as John Valdesso terms them) faint, dissipated, and shorn of all my strength, but T say, ‘God deliver me from a half Christian.’ “9. Freedom from care is yet another invaluable blessing. And where could I enjoy thisasI do now? I hear of such a thing as the cares of the world; but I feel them not. My income is ready for me on so many stated days: all I have to do is to carry it home. The grand article of my expense is food. And this too, is provided without any care of mine. The servants I employ are always ready at quarter day; so I have no trouble on their account. And what I occasionally need to buy, I ean mmediately have without any expense of thought. Here, therefore, I can be ‘without carefulness.’ I can ‘attend upon the Lord without distraction.’ And I know what a help this is to the being holy both in body and spirit.