Wesley Corpus

But if you designed it not, did you not foresee it? You might have done so without any extraordinary sagacity. “Nay, I did not care or think ThiOUGil TS UPON DRESS. 477 about it.” And do you say this by way of excuse? You “scatter abroad arrows, firebrands, and death,” and do not care or think about it ! 8. O let us walk more charitably and more wisely for the time to come ! Let us all cast aside, from this very hour, whatever does not become men and women professing godliness; whatever does not spring from the love and fear of God, and minister thereto. Let our seriousness “shine before men,” not our dress. Let all who see us know that we are not of this world. Let our adorning be that which fadeth not away; cven righteousness and true holiness. If ye regard not weakening my hands, and grieving my spirit, yet grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Do you ask, “But what shall I do with the gay or costly apparel, and with the ornaments, I have already? Must I suffer them to be lost? Ought I not to wear them, now I have them?” I answer, There is no loss like that of using them; wearing them is the greatest loss of all. But what then shalt thou do with them? Burn them, rather than wear them; throw them in the depth of the sea. Or, if thou canst with a clear con science, sell them, and give the money to them that want; but buy no more at the peril of thy soul.