Wesley Corpus

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God alone for his own sake, and all things beside only so far as they tend to. him:. t', ',.; That this is the mark towards, which we are all to press if we would attain! the prize of: our high calling; that none can attain it unless they press toward this mark, according to the several abilities which God hath given them; that this plain sense of the great, command ment is the true one, I am in the second place to show, first from the Holy Scriptures, se condly from reason. ..."•.' vr-i From every part of the Holy Scriptures, it appears that love is the proper worship of. a reasonable nature. To go no further than the words immediately preceding the text, " Hear, Israel (said our Divine Teacher), the Lord thy God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God." Thou shalt love Him why ? because He is the Lord thy God, and as such has a just claim to thy love ; because love is the worship due to thy God ; because it is the proper homage of a rational being to his Cre ator. " Thinkest thou that he will eat bulls' flesh, and drink the blood of goats? Offerunto