Wesley Corpus

13. Have we half of us read over the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordaining Bishops, Priests, and Deacons If not, what is it we have so solemnly confirmed In plain terms, we cannot tell. And as to the two Books of Homilies, it is well if a tenth part of those who have subscribed to them, I will not say, had considered them before they did this, but if they have even read them over to this day! Alas, my brethren! How shall we reconcile these things even to common honesty, to plain heathen morality So far are those who do them, nay, and perhaps defend them too, from having even the form of Christian godliness! 14. But, waving all these things, where is the power Who are the living witnesses of this Who among us (let God witness with our hearts) experimentally knows the force of inward holiness Who feels in himself the workings of the Spirit of Christ, drawing up his mind to high and heavenly things Who can witness, -- " The thoughts of my heart God hath cleansed by the inspiration of his Holy Spirit" Who knoweth that "peace of God which passeth all understanding" Who is he that "rejoiceth with joy unspeakable and full of glory" Whose "affections are set on things above, not on things of the earth" Whose "life is hid with Christ in God" Who can say, "I am crucified with Christ; yet I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life that I now live in the body, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" In whose heart is the "love of God shed abroad, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto him"