Wesley Corpus

10 How could I, Lord, myself deceive, While unreform'd within P Protest against their creed, and cleave The closer to their sin P ll Their foulest sin my own I made, (And humbly now confess,) While by my anger I essay'd To work thy righteousness. 12 A murderer convict, I come My vileness to bewail : By nature born a son of Rome, A child of wrath and hell. 13 Lord, I at last recant, reject, Through thy great strength alone, The madness of the Romish sect, The madness of my own. 14 Lord, I abhor, renounce, abjure, The fiery spirit unclean, The persecuting zeal impure, The sin-opposing sin. 15 Let others draw, with fierce despite, The eradicating sword, And with the devil's weapons fight, The battles of the Lord. 16 But O' my gracious God, to me A better spirit impart; The gentle mind that was in thee, The meekly loving heart. 17 The heart whose charity o'erflows To all, far off, and near ; True charity to friends and foes, Impartially sincere. 18 Heathens, and Jews, and Turks, may I, And heretics embrace; Nor e'en to Rome the love deny I owe to all the race. WHAT are you going to do? to vote for a Parliament man? I hope then you have taken no money. For doubt less you know the strictness of the oath,-that you have received no “gift or reward, directly or indirectly, nor any promise of any, on account of your vote” in the ensuing election. Surely you start at perjury ! at calm, forethought, deliberate, wilful perjury ! If you are guilty already, stop; go no further. It is at the peril of your soul. Will you sell your country? Will you sell your own soul? Will you sell your God, your Saviour? Nay, God forbid! Rather cast down just now the thirty pieces of silver or gold, and say, “Sir, I will not sell heaven. Neither you nor all the world is able to pay the purchase.” I hope you have received nothing else, neither will receive; no entertainment, no meat or drink. If this is given you on account of your vote, you are perjured still. How can you make oath, you have received no gift? This was a gift, if you did not buy it. What!