Wesley Corpus

plicity of heart, and fervent piety, wherewith the offering was made. And is not the same spirit capable of sanctifying the meanest actions of our lives, that is, the desire to please God, and rendering every thing acceptable in his sight ? Yes ; God is a spirit, and seeketh such to worship him as worship him in spirit and in truth. He that hath promised that even a cup of cold water given to a disciple in the name of God shall in no wise lose its reward, will doubtless have a great respect to, and will mightily bless and prosper, him who in his least action has reference to the advancement of his glory. He, therefore, who refuses to in dulge himself in pleasure, who lays various restraints upon his behaviour and conversation, who is fearful of doing many things which the generality of people freely allow themselves in, if he has made God the foundation of his scru pulosity, and a desire of his glory the ground and reason of his singularity he shall be re ceived as great in the kingdom of heaven. Thus have I endeavoured to prove my first position ; and, I trust, have incontrovertibly