Wesley Corpus

4. Thy Lord will then inquire, "How didst thou employ the body wherewith I entrusted thee I gave thee a tongue to praise me therewith: Didst thou use it to the end for which it was given Didst thou employ it, not in evil speaking or idle speaking, not in uncharitable or unprofitable conversation; but in such as was good, as was necessary or useful either to thyself or others such as always tended, directly or indirectly, to `minister grace to the hearers' I gave thee, together with thy other senses, those grand avenues of knowledge, sight, and hearing: were these employed to those excellent purposes for which they were bestowed upon thee in bringing thee in more and more instruction in righteousness and true holiness I gave thee hands and feet, and various members, wherewith to perform the works which were prepared for thee: were they employed, not in doing `the will of the flesh,' of thy evil nature; or the will of the mind; (the things to which thy reason or fancy led thee;) but "the will of Him that sent" thee into the world, merely to work out thy own salvation Didst thou present all thy members, not to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness, but to me alone, through the Son of my love, `as instruments of righteousness'"