Wesley Corpus

Love has purified his heart from envy, malice, wrath, and every unkind temper. It has cleansed him from pride, whereof “only cometh contention;’ and he hath now “put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humble ness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.’ And indeed all possible ground for contention, on his part, is cut off. For none can take from him what he desires, seeing he ‘loves not the world, nor any of the things of the world;’ but “all his desire is unto God, and to the remembrance of his name.’ “Agreeable to this his one desire, is the one design of his life; namely, “to do, not his own will, but the will of Him that sent him.’ His one intention at all times and in all places is, not to please himself, but Him whom his soul loveth. He hath a single eye; and because his ‘eye is single, his whole body is full of light. The whole is light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth enlighten the house.’ God reigns alone; all that is in the soul is ‘holiness to the Lord.” There is not a motion in his heart but is according to his will. Every thought that arises points to him, and is in “obedience to the law of Christ.’ “And the tree is known by its fruits. For, as he loves God, so he ‘keeps his commandments; not only some, or most of them, but all, from the least to the greatest. He is not content to “keep the whole law and offend in one point, but has in all points ‘a conscience void of offence towards God, and towards man.’ Whatever God has forbidden, he avoids; what ever God has enjoined, he does. ‘He runs the way of God's cornmandments, now He hath set his heart at liberty. It is his glory and joy so to do; it is his daily crown of rejoicing, to ‘do the will of God on earth, as it is done in heaven.’ “All the commandments of God he accordingly keeps, and that with all his might; for his obedience is in propertion to his love, the source from whence it flows.