Wesley Corpus

Is it not, in effect, loving the creature more than the Creator? Does it not imply that you are “a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God?” 7. O return to Him that made you happy before, and He will make you happy again. Repeat your prayer, “Keep me dead to all below; Only Christ resolved to know : Firm, and disengaged, and free; Seeking all my bliss in thee!” Seek, accept of nothing in the room of, God. Let all the springs of your happiness be in him. “Seek first,” just as you did before, “the kingdom of God and his righteousness;” the knowledge and love of God; “fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;” “and all other things shall be added unto you;” particularly joy in the Holy Ghost. Again,-- Know God, and teach thy soul to know The joys that from religion flow : Then every grace shall be thy guest, And peace be there to crown the rest. L1s BURN, June 11, 1785. To I. 1. I AM not fond of saying the same thing over and over; especially when I have so many things to say, that the day of life (which with me is far spent) is not likely to suffice for them. But, in some cases, it is needful for you that I should ; and then it is not grievous to me. And it may be best to speak freely and fully at once, that there may be the less need of speaking on this head hereafter. 2. When we look into the Bible with any attention, and then look round into the world, to see who believes and who lives according to this book; we may easily discern that the system of practice, as well as the system of truth, there delivered, is torn in pieces, and scattered abroad, like the members of Absyrtus. Every denomination of Christians retains some part either of Christian truth or practice; these hold fast one part, and those another, as their fathers did before them. What is the duty, meantime, of those who desire to follow the whole word of God?