Wesley Corpus

3. Again: When "calamity cometh as a whirlwind, and poverty as an armed man;" is this a little temptation Is it strange if it occasion sorrow and heaviness Although this also may appear but a small thing to those who stand at a distance, or who look, and "pass by on the other side;" yet it is otherwise to them who feel it. "Having food and raiment," (indeed the latter word, skepasmata, implies lodging as well as apparel,) we may, if the love of God is in our hearts, "be therewith content." But what shall they do who have none of these who, as it were, "embrace the rock for a shelter" who have only the earth to lie upon, and only the sky to cover them who have not a dry, or warm, much less a clean, abode for themselves and their little ones: no, nor clothing to keep themselves, or those they love next themselves, from pinching cold, either by day or night I laugh at the stupid Heathen, crying out, Nil habet, inflex paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit!