Wesley Corpus

will be scanned and strictly examined. Now, if not one be too insignificant to deserve the censure and cognizance of the Almighty, not one is tob mean to be referred to his service. If we are to give an account for each, cer tain it is, that each should be done as to the Lord. Persuaded I am that no action can stand the test of this strict and solemn scrutiny, which is not begun, continued, and ended in his ser vice ; and therefore the proof of this article of our faith ought to convince us of the import ance, as well as the truth, of the doctrine now under consideration, and effectually prevail upon us to do every thing we do as in the presence of our God, in the sight of our judge, who hath required it of us that Himself should be the ultimate end of all our actions. That we may not think that we shall escape unpunished in the great and terrible day of the Lord, merely for the innocence, or rather the insignificance of our actions, our blessed Savi our has told us, that we shall give an account at the day of judgment even for every idle word. Now, if our idle words will not escape