Wesley Corpus

xv. 1, 2.) “After all that is come upon us, for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass; should we again break thy command ments, wouldest thou not be angry with us, till thou hadst consumed us?” (Ezra ix. 13, 14.) “Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any.” (Job xxxvi. 5.) Could he then reprobate any? “The Lord is good to all: And his tender mercies are over all his works.” (Psalm cKlv. 9.) “Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.” (Prov. i. 23, &c.) Why? because of my decree? No; but “because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.” “I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people; a people that provoked me to anger continually to my face. Therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. Ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, ye did not answer. Therefore, ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.” (Isaiah lxv. 2, &c.) “The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear” (eternally) “the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. Have I any plea sure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord; and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” (Ezek. xviii. 20, 23.) “Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.” (Matt. vii. 26.) Nay, he could not help it, if he was ordained thereto. “Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. Wo unto thee, Chorazin! Wo unto thee, Bethsaida !