Wesley Corpus

to this end, that he may be made perfect through those sufferings. But till perfect holiness be found on earth, so neither will perfect happiness : While some remains of our disease be felt, some physic will be necessary to heal it. Therefore we are more or less subject to the pain of cure, as well as the pain of sickness. And accordingly, nei-. ther do the wicked here cease from troubling, nor can the weary be at rest. " Who then will deliver us from the body of this death?" Death will deliver us. Death shall set those free in one moment, who were all their life-time subject to bondage. Death shall destroy at once the whole body of sin, and therewith of its companion, pain. And therefore, " there the wicked cease from trou bling, and there the weary be at rest." The Scriptures give us no account of the place where the souls of the just remain from death to the resurrection. But we have an ac count of their state in these words ; in explain ing which I shall consider, First, How the wicked do here trouble good men. And,