Wesley Corpus

Advice to a Soldier Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 11 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- 1. ARE you to die? Must you leave this world, and carry nothing of it away with you? Naked as you came out of your mother's womb, naked shall you return. And are you never to come back into this world? Have you no more place under the sun ? When you leave these houscs and fields, this flesh and blood, do you part with them for ever? Are you sure of this? Must all men die? Can none at all escape death ? Do rich men likewise die, and leave their riches for others? Do princes also fall and die like one of their people? Can you then escape it? You do not think so. You know death is as sure as if you felt it already; as if you was now gasping for life, sweating and trembling in those last pangs, till the soul started off from the quivering lips into the boundless ocean of eternity. 2. And are you to be judged? How is this to be? Why, the Son of God shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him; “and then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And before Him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. Behold, he cometh with clouds ! And every eye shall see Him which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty And I saw” (wilt thou also say) “a great white throne, and Him that sat thereon, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and they were judged, every man according to his works.” And shalt thou also be judged according to thy works? all thy works, whether they be good or evil? Yea, and for every idle word which thou shalt speak, thou shalt give an account in the day of judgment. But this is not all: The Lord, the Judge, searcheth the heart, and trieth the reins. He understands all thy thoughts; and for all these likewise he shall bring thee intojudgment. Supposest thou it is enough to be outwardly good? What!