Wesley Corpus

Treatise Word To A Freeholder

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
YearNone
Passage IDjw-treatise-word-to-a-freeholder-002
Words165
Social Holiness Catholic Spirit Reign of God
Set a mark upon that man. Above all, mark that man who talks of loving the Church, and does not love the King. If he does not love the King, he cannot love God. And if he does not love God, he cannot love the Church. He loves the Church and the King just alike. For indeed he loves neither one nor the other. O beware, you who truly love the Church, and therefore cannot but love the King; beware of dividing the King and the Church, any more than the King and country. Let others do as they will, what is that to you? Act you as an honest man, a loyal subject, a true Englishman, a lover of the country, a lover of the Church; in one word, a Christian one that fears nothing but sin, that seeks nothing but heaven, and that desires nothing but God; nothing but glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men I