Wesley Corpus

there chokes the word, and it becometh unfruitful." Among the poor? No. " The cares of the world " are there, " so that it bringeth forth no fruit, to perfection." How ever, there is nothing to prevent its growth among those who have neither poverty nor riches Yes, the desire of other things. And experience shows, by a thousand melancholy examples, that the allowed desire of any thing, great or small, otherwise than as a means to the one thing needful, will by degrees banish the care of that out of the soul, and unfit it for every good word or work. Such is the trouble, not to descend to parti culars which are endless, that wicked men con tinually occasion to the good. Such is the state of all good men while on earth ; but it is not so with their souls in Paradise. In the moment wherein they are loosed from the body they know pain no more. Though they are not yet possessed of the fulness ofjoy, yet all grief is done away. For there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest." -.K l Ts,; • ion .Secondly, "There the wearyare atrest/'which