Wesley Corpus

Let us earnestly exhort all our countrymen to improve the innumerable blessings they enjoy; in particular, that invalu able blessing of liberty, civil as well as religious, which we now enjoy in a far more ample measure than any of our forefathers did. Let us labour to improve our religious liberty, by practising pure religion and undefiled; by worshipping God in spirit and in truth; and taking his “word for a lantern to our feet, and a light in all our paths.” Let us improve our civil liberty, the full freedom we enjoy, both as to our lives, goods, and persons, by devoting all we have, and all we are, to his honourable service. Then may we hope that he will continue to us all these blessings, with the crown of all, a thankful heart. Then shall we say, in all the changing scenes of life, - “Father, how wide thy glories shine, Lord of the universe and mine ! Thy goodness watches o'er the whole, As all the world were but one soul ; Yet counts my every sacred hair, As I remain'd thy single care !”