Wesley Corpus

XXxiii who had betrayed it, and basely injured him. They not only subsisted on his bounty, but shared his affection ; nor was it easy to con vince him that any one had wilfully de ceived him ; or, if it were attested by facts, he would only allow it had been so in that single instance. Equally generous and kind was his brother respecting enemies, and capable ofan entire re conciliation ; but he could not replace his con fidence where he had experienced treachery. This formed some variation in their conduct, as also the higher church principles ofCharles, who manifested them to the last, by desiring to be buried in consecrated ground. His most striking excellence was humility ; it extended to his talents as well as virtues ; he not only acknowledged and pointed out, but delighted in the superiority of another, and if there ever was a human being who dis liked power, avoided pre-eminence, and shrunk from praise, it was Charles Wesley. xxxiv " In their lives they were lovely, and in their deaths they were not divided." His poetical talents were confined to sacred subjects ; he wrote short hymns on the most remarkable passages of the Old and New Testament. There is not a point of divinity, doctrinal, experimental, or practical, which he has not illustrated in verse. His. funeral hymns breathe not only the spirit of poetry, but the extreme susceptibility of the pious author, and the religion of the heart. As a preacher he was impassioned and en ergetic ; and expressed the most important truths with simplicity, brevity, and force. Most of these sermons were delivered in his early youth, when he was in America : the thirteenth sermon, by the Rev. John Wesley, was never published amongst his works. They are presented to the public by his Widow.