Wesley Corpus

You are now a mere riddle to yourself, and your condition full of darkness and perplexity. You are one among many restless inhabitants of a miserable, disordered world, “walking in a vain shadow, and disquieting yourself in vain.” But the light of God will speedily disperse the anxiety of your vain conjectures. By adding heaven to earth, and eter nity to time, it will open such a glorious view of things as will lead you, even in the present world, to a peace which passeth all understanding. 66. O ye gross, vile, scandalous sinners, hear ye the word of the Lord. “Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he' should turn and live.” O make haste; delay not the time ! “Come, and let us reason together: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments, red in his apparel?” It is He on whom the Lord “hath laid the iniquities of us all !” Behold, behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away thy sins! See the only-begotten Son of the Father, “full of grace and truth !” He loveth thee. He gave himself for thee. Now his bowels of compassion yearn over thee! O believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved !“Go in peace, sin no more!” 67. Now, cannot you join in all this? Is it not the very lan guage of your heart? O when will you take knowledge, that our whole concern, our constant labour, is, to bring all the world to the religion which you feel; to solid, inward, vital religion! What power is it then that keeps us asunder? “Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? If it be, give me thy hand. Come with me, and see,” and rejoice in, “my zeal for the Lord.” No difference between us (if thou art a child of God) can be so considerable as our agreement is. If we differ in smaller things, we agree in that which is greatest of all.