Wesley Corpus

So you ascribe all the knowledge you have to God; and in this respect you are humble. But if you think you have more than you really have; or if you think you are so taught of God, as no longer to need * The advices which follow were published in a separate tract in the year 1762, under the title of “Cautions and Directions given to the Greatest Professors in the Methodist Societies,” with the following motto: “Set the false witnesses aside, Yet hold the truth for ever fast.” It was evidently intended to guard the people against the mischievous extrava gances of George Bell and his friends, a particular account of whom is given in Mr. Wesley's Journal about that period.-EDIT. man’s teaching; pride lieth at the door. Yes, you have need to be taught, not only by Mr. Morgan, by one another, by Mr. Maxfield, or me, but by the weakest Preacher in London; yea, by all men. For God sendeth by whom he will send. “Do not therefore say to any who would advise or reprove you, ‘You are blind; you cannot teach me.’ Do not say, ‘This is your wisdom, your carnal reason; but calmly weigh the thing before God. “Always remember, much grace does not imply much light. These do not always go together. As there may be much light where there is but little love, so there may be much love where there is little light. The heart has more heat than the eye; yet it cannot see. And God has wisely tempered the members of the body together, that none may say to another, “I have no need of thee.’ “To imagine none can teach you, but those who are them selves saved from sin, is a very great and dangerous mistake. Give not place to it for a moment; it would lead you into a thousand other mistakes, and that irrecoverably. No; dominion is not founded in grace, as the madmen of the last age talked. Obey and regard ‘them that are over you in the Lord, and do not think you know better than them. Know their place and your own; always remembering, much love does not imply much light. “The not observing this has led some into many mistakes, and into the appearance, at least, of pride. O beware of the appearance, and the thing!