Wesley Corpus

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? How low are you fallen | You yourself are ashamed of what you do. Are you not? Conscience, speak in the sight of God! Does not your own heart condemn you at this very hour? Do not you shudder at the condition you are in? Dare, for once, to lay your hand upon your breast, and ask, “What am I doing? And what must the end of these things be?” Destruction both of body and soul. 6. Destruction of body as well as of soul / Can it be otherwise? Are you not plunging into misery in this world, as well as in the world to come? What have you brought upon yourself already? what infamy? what contempt? How could you now appear among those relations and friends that were once so loved, and so loving to you? What pangs have you given them? How do some of them still weep for you in secret places? And will you not weep for yourself, when you see nothing before you but want, pain, diseases, death? O spare yourself! Have pity upon your body, if not your soul! Stop! before you rot above ground and perish ! 7. Do you ask, What shall I do? First, sin no more. First of all, secure this point. Now, this instant, now, escape for your life; stay not; look not behind you.