Wesley Corpus

For health or sickness, life or death, is best when the Lord sends it. “I am in hopes of seeing you soon; though my friends talk of detaining me, to make a farther trial of the waters. I am forbid preaching; but, blessed be God, I am not forbid by my Heavenly Physician to pray, believe, and love. This is a sweet work, which heals, strengthens, and delights: Let us do it, till we have recovered our spiritual strength. And then, whether we shall be seen on earth or not, it will be all alike. “O be hearty in the cause of religion | Be either hot or £old. It is a fearful thing to be lukewarm, and thereby fall into the hands of the living God. Be humbly zealous for your own salvation and for God’s glory. And forget not to care for each other's salvation. The case of wicked Cain is very common; the practice of many says, with that wretch, ‘Am I my brother's keeper?” O pray God to keep you by his mighty power through faith unto salvation | Keep your selves in the love of God, and keep one another by example, reproof, exhortation, encouragement, social prayer, and a faithful use of all the means of grace. Use yourselves to bow at Christ's feet as your Prophet. Go to him continually for the holy anointing of his Spirit, who will be a Teacher always near, always with you and in you. If you have that inward Instructer, you will suffer no material loss, though your outward Teachers should be removed. “While you have the light of God’s word, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of the light, fitted for the kingdom of eternal light; where, I charge you, prepare to meet with joy “Your affectionate, though unworthy, t “Brother and Minister, 4. I subjoin part of a letter wrote some time before, in the same spirit, to his parishioners at Madeley:-- “December 28, 1776. “MY DEAR PARISHIoNERs, “THE weakness of my body confining me from you, I humbly submit to the divine dispensation.