Wesley Corpus

A Word to an Unhappy Woman Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 11 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- 1. WHITHER are you going? to heaven or hell? Do you not know? Do you never think about it? Why do you not? Are you never to die? Nay, it is appointed for all men to die. And what comes after? Only heaven or heli. Will the not thinking of death, put it farther off? No; n t a day; not one hour. Or will your not thinking of hell, save you from it? O no; you know better. And you know that every moment you are nearer hell, whether you are thinking of it or no; that is, if you are not nearer heaven. You must be nearer one or the other. 2. I intreat you, think a little on that plain question, Are you going toward heaven or hell? To which of the two does this way lead? Is it possible you should be ignorant? Did you never hear, that neither adulterers nor fornicators shall inherit the kingdom ? that fornicators and adulterers. God will judge? And how dreadful will be their sentence, “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels!” 3. Surely you do not mock at the word of God! You are not yet sunk so low as this. Consider then that awful word, “Know ye not, that ye are the temples of God?” Was not you designed for the Spirit of God to dwell in ? Was not you devoted to God in baptism? But “if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.” O do not provoke him to it any longer ! Tremble before the great, the holy God! 4. Know you not, that your body is, or ought to be, the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? Know you not, that “you are not your own? for you are bought with a price.” And, O how great a price! “You are not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” O when will you glorify God, with your body and your spirit, which are God’s 5. Ah, poor wretch! How far are you from this?