Wesley Corpus

Certainly, not He by whose authority we minister. Is not his will the same with regard to us, as with regard to his first Ambassadors? Is not his love, and is not his power, still the same, as they were in the ancient days? Know we not, that Jesus Christ “is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever?” Why then may not you be as “burning and as shining lights,” as those that shone seventeen hundred years ago? Do you desire to partake of the same burning love, of the same shining holiness? Surely you do. You cannot but be sensible it is the greatest blessing which can be bestowed on any child of man. Do you design it; aim at it; “press on to” this “mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus?” Do you constantly and earnestly pray for it? Then, as the Lord liveth, ye shall attain. Only let us pray on, and “tarry at Jerusalem, till we be endued with power from on high.” Let us continue in all the ordinances of God, particularly in medi tating on his word, “in denying ourselves, and taking up our cross daily,” and, “as we have time, doing good to all men; ” and then assuredly “the great Shepherd” of us and our flocks will “make us perfect in every good work to do his will, and work in us all that is well pleasing in his sight!” This is the desire and prayer of Your Brother and Servant, in our common Lord, LoNDoN, February 6, 1756.