Wesley Corpus

43-45.) “And then shall many be offended; and the love” (towards God and man) “of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.” (xxiv. 10, &c.) “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household? But if that evil servant” (wise and faithful as he was once) “shall begin to smite his fellow-servants; the Lord shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites,” (verse 45, &c.,) apostates, being no better than they. “Take heed to yourselves,” ye that believe, “lest at any time your heart be overcharged with the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares:” (Luke xxi. 34:) Plainly implying, that otherwise they would not be “accounted worthy to stand before the Son of man.” “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John viii. 31, 32.) “I keep my body under; lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.” (1 Cor. ix. 27.) “Our fathers did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink: For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them: And that rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: For they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now, these things were for our examples: Wherefore let him that thinketh he stand eth take heed lest he fall.” (x. 3, &c.) “We therefore, as workers together with him, beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.” (2 Cor. vi. 1.) But this were impossible, if none that ever had it could perish. “Ye are fallen from grace.” (Gal. v. 4) “We shall reap, if we faint not.” (vi. 9.) Therefore we shall not reap, if we do. “We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.” (Heb. iii. 14.) “Beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.” (2 Peter iii. 17.) “Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things which we have wrought.” (2 John 8.) “Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” (Rev.