Wesley Corpus

proposed either to save the whole world, or to save a soul to preserve ten thousand millions from suffering pain sixty years, or to save one man from being in pain, though but equal pain, to all eternity a wise man would not pause a moment which were the nobler in stance of mercy; seeing, although as many men as there are sands on the sea shore were to be miserable for sixty years, the whole sum of misery they sustained would bear no pro portion to the endless misery of one, than finite to infinite, than time to eternity. This simple consideration is enough to give us a general notion of that happiness, the en joyment of which is secured to him who is rescued from endless misery. That this happiness is eternal we know, and therefore need not inquire into the particulars ; nor indeed can we know, if it were possible to man to utter them. St. Paul, doubtless, after having been in the third heaven, would have been best able to have done it ; but since even he was unequal to such a task, well may we decline so fruitless an attempt : only we are expressly told that no pain is there, but inexhaustible rivers of plea