Wesley Corpus

if the country, does it profit the King? Their interest cannot be divided. The welfare of one is the welfare of both. Have you an objection of a different kind? Do you say, “I am for the Church? The Church of England for ever ! Therefore I vote for ; he is a true Churchman, a lover of the Church.” Are you sure of that? Friend, think a little. What kind of a Churchman is he? a whoring Church man, a gaming Churchman, a drunken Churchman, a lying Churchman, a cursing and swearing Churchman? or a red hot persecuting Churchman, that would send all Dissenters to the devil at a clap? For shame ! for shame ! Do you call a man a Churchman, who knows no more of God than a Turk? call a man a Churchman, that does not even pretend to so much religion as would serve an honest Heathem? He is a lover of the Church who is a lover of God, and conse quently of all mankind. Whoever else talks of loving the Church, is a cheat. Set a mark upon that man. Above all, mark that man who talks of loving the Church, and does not love the King. If he does not love the King, he cannot love God. And if he does not love God, he cannot love the Church. He loves the Church and the King just alike. For indeed he loves neither one nor the other. O beware, you who truly love the Church, and therefore cannot but love the King; beware of dividing the King and the Church, any more than the King and country. Let others do as they will, what is that to you? Act you as an honest man, a loyal subject, a true Englishman, a lover of the country, a lover of the Church; in one word, a Christian one that fears nothing but sin, that seeks nothing but heaven, and that desires nothing but God; nothing but glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men I 1. ARE you to die? Must you leave this world, and carry nothing of it away with you? Naked as you came out of your mother's womb, naked shall you return. And are you never to come back into this world? Have you no more place under the sun ?