Wesley Corpus

All who hear and regard the word we preach, “honour the King” for God's sake. They “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,” as well as “unto God the things that are God’s.” They have no conception of piety without loyalty; knowing “the powers that be are ordained of God.” I pray God to strengthen all that are of this mind, how many soever they be | But might there not have been at this day a hundred thousand in England, thus minded, more than are now? Yea verily, even by our ministry, had not they who should have strengthened us, weakened our hands. 35. Surely you are not wise! What advantages do you throw away ! What opportunities do you lose ! Such as, another day, you may earnestly seek, and, nevertheless, may not find them. For if it please God to remove us, whom will you find to supply our place? We are in all things “your servants for Jesus’s sake; ” though the more we love you, the less we are loved. Let us be employed, not in the highest, but in the meanest, and not in the easiest, but the hottest, service. Base and plenty we leave to those that want them. Let us go on in toil, in weariness, in painfulness, in cold or hunger, so we may but testify the gospel of the grace of God. The rich, the honourable, the great, we are thoroughly willing (if it be the will of our Lord) to leave to you. Only let us alone with the poor, the vulgar, the base, the outcasts of men. Take also to yourselves the saints of the world: But suffer us “to call sinners to repentance; ” cven the most vile, the most ignorant, the most abandoned, the most fierce and savage of whom we can hear. To these we will go forth in the manne of our Lord, de siring nothing, receiving nothing of any man, (save the bread we eat, while we are under his roof) and lot it be scen whether God hath sent us. Only let not your hands, who fear the Lord, be upon us. Why should we be stricken of you any more? IV. 1.