Wesley Corpus

While you “gain all you can,” and “save all you can,” “give all you can,” that is, all you have. Lay out your talents of every kind in doing all good to all men; knowing that “every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.” 15. Upon the whole, without disputing whether the married or single life be the more perfect state, (an idle dispute; since perfection does not consist in any outward state whatever, but in an absolute devotion of all our heart and all our life to God,) we may safely say, Blessed are “they who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake;” who abstain from things lawful in them selves, in order to be more devoted to God. Let these never forget those remarkable words: “Peter said, Lo, we have left all and followed thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you,” (a preface denoting both the certainty and importance of what is spoken,) “There is no man that hath left” (either by giving them up, or by not accepting them) “house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time; and in the world to come eternal life.” (Mark x. 28-30.)