Wesley Corpus

at noon-day, more often it walks in darkness ; and our being delivered from it then is wholly attributable to their timely interposition, though neither the attack nor the repulse falls under the notice of our imperfect senses. Other seasons there are at which we are sensible of our danger, but not of the means of our escape ; which we suppose to be either the natural effect of material causes, or what we call chance, or the effect of our own strength and wisdom. But were we left alone, left to these or to our selves, we should soon find how little resist ance we could make against the enemies that daily besiege us, without those on our side who are more skilful to save than these to destroy. And unquestionably they would save us whenever assaulted by any evil, whether visible or invisible, but that this exceeds the commission which they have received from their Heavenly Father and ours. This He did not appoint, could not permit, as his wisdom knows it would not benefit but injure us. He knows of what infinite service afflictions are to creatures in our station, and therefore, that to be delivered from them all while on earth