Wesley Corpus

It must be one or the other; for there is no medium. If not created, it is God. If created, is it not a creature? How then can these be three, -God, nature, and creature; since nature must coin cide either with God or creature? “Nature is in itself a hungry, wrathful fire of life. Nature is and can be only a desire. Desire is the very being of nature.” “Nature is only a desire, because it is for the sake of something else! Nature is only a torment, because it cannot help itself to what it wants.” Shame to human understanding, that any man should fall in love with such stark, staring nonsense as this! “Nature, as well as God, is antecedent to all creatures. There is an eternal nature, as universal and as unlimited as God.” Is then nature God? Or, are there two eternal, universal, infinite beings? “Nothing is before eternal nature, but God.” Nothing but ! Is anything before that which is eternal? “Nature, and darkness, and self, are but three different expressions for one and the same thing.” “Nature has all evil and no evil in it.” “Nature has seven chief properties, and can have neither more nor less, because it is a birth from the Deity in nature.” (Is nature a birth from the Deity in nature ? Is not this a flat contradiction?) “For God is tri-une, and nature is tri-une.” (Nature triune 1 Prove it who can.) “And hence arise properties, three and three.” (Why not four and four?) “And that which brings these three and three into union is another property.” Sublime jargon I “The three first properties of nature are the whole essence of that desire which is, and is called, nature.” A part of its pro perties are the whole essence of it ! Flat contradiction again : “The three first properties of nature are, attraction, resistance, and whirling. In these three properties of the desire, you see the reason of the three great laws of matter and motion.” How does it appear that these are any of the properties of nature, if you mean by nature anything distinct from matter? And how are they properties of desire? “The fourth property is fire; the fifth, the form of light and love;” (what is the form of love?