Wesley Corpus

He feels continual gratitude to his supreme Bene factor, Father of Spirits, Parent of Good; and tender, disinterested benevolence to all the children of this common Father. May the Father of your spirit, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, make you such a Christian 1 May He work in your soul a divine conviction of things not discerned by eyes of flesh and blood 1 May He give you to see Him that is invisible, and to taste of the powers of the world to come ! May He fill you with all peace and joy in believing, that you may be happy in life, in death, in eternity * Let this pleasing mental error remain.-EDIT. Periculosae plenum opus alea Tractas; et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso.*-HonAT. YoU desire me to give you my thoughts freely on the present state of public affairs. But do you consider? I am no politician; politics lie quite out of my province. Neither have I any acquaintance, at least no intimacy, with any that bear that character. And it is no easy matter to form any judgment concerning things of so complicated a nature. It is the more difficult, because, in order to form our judgment, such a multitude of facts should be known, few of which can be known with tolerable exactness by any but those who are eye-witnesses of them. And how few of these will relate what they have seen precisely as it was, without adding, omitting, or altering any circumstance, either with or with out design And may not a slight addition or alteration give a quite different colour to the whole? And as we cannot easily know, with any accuracy, the facts on which we are chiefly to form our judgment; so, much less can we expect to know the various springs of action which gave rise to those facts, and on which, more than on the bare actions themselves, the characters of the actors depend. It is on this account that an old writer advises us to judge * Thus translated by Francis : “You treat adventurous, and incautious tread On fires with faithless embers overspread.”--EDIT. FREE Though TS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS.