Wesley Corpus

Whose fault is this? Is it ours, or your own 2 Why have not thousands more been reformed ? Yea, for every one who is now turned to God, why are there not ten thousand 7 Because you and your associates laboured so heartily in the cause of hell; because you and they spared no pains, either to prevent or to destroy the work of God! By using all the power and wisdom you had, you hindered thousands from hearing the gospel which they might have found to be the power of God unto salvation. Their blood is upon your heads. By inventing, or countenancing, or retailing lies, some refined, some gross and palpable, you hindered others from profiting by what they did hear. You are answerable to God for these souls also. Many who began to taste the good word, and run the way of God’s commandments, you, by various methods, prevailed on to hear it no more: So they soon drew back to perdition. But know, that, for every one of these also, God will require an account of you in the day of judgment. 34. And yet, in spite of all the malice, and wisdom, and strength, not only of men, but of “principalities and powers,” of the “rulers of the darkness of this world,” of the “wicked spirits in high places,” there are thousands found who are turned from “dumb idols to serve the living and true God.” What a harvest then might we have seen before now, if all who say they are “on the Lord’s side,” had come, as in all reason they ought, “to the help of the Lord against the mighty!” Yea, had they only not opposed the work of God, had they only refrained from his messengers, might not the trumpet of God have been heard long since in every corner of our land; and thousands of sinners in every county been brought to “fear God and honour the King?” Judge of what immense service we might have been, even in this single point, both to our King and country. All who hear and regard the word we preach, “honour the King” for God's sake.