Wesley Corpus

4. Are any of you that are called Methodists thus merciful to your children Seeking to marry them well (as the cant phrase is;) that is, to sell them to some purchaser that has much money, but little or no religion Is then the light that is in you also darkness Are ye, too, regarding God less than mammon Are ye also without understanding Have ye profited no more by all ye have heard Man, woman, think what you are about! Dare you also sell your child to the devil You undoubtedly do this (as far as in you lies) when you marry a son or a daughter to a child of the devil; though it be one that wallows in gold and silver. O take warning in time! Beware of the gilded bait! Death and hell are hid beneath. Prefer grace before gold and precious stones; glory in heaven, to riches on earth! If you do not, you are worse than the very Canaanites. They only made their children pass "through the fire" to Moloch. You make yours pass into the fire that never shall be quenched, and to stay in it for ever! O how great is the darkness that causes you, after you have done this, to "wipe your mouth, and say you have done no evil!"