Wesley Corpus

duces to our enjoying our Creator ; though it does especially forbid, and effectually prevent our leaning on those broken reeds ,when af fliction presses down our soul ; and ; though it does set ; us 1 above what are sometimes mis called innocent pleasures that is, vain, unneces sary,' trifling, useless, enjoyments ; yet it is in no wise destructive of that happiness which our blessed religion was designed to promote ; so far from it, that love, entire love, is the point wherein all the lines of our holy religion centre. This is the great happiness which the great Author of it lived and died to establish ; and a happiness it is, worthy of the most high God! worthy of infinite goodness and infinite wisdom to bestow ! a happiness not built on imagina tion, but real, and rational ; a happiness that does not play before our eyes at a distance, and vanish when we attempt to grasp it, but such as will endure the closest inspection, and the more it is tried it will delight the more. .In the happiness of love there is no vanity, neither any vexation of spirit : no delusion, no disap pointment is here: peace, joy, and hope, ever dwell with love; the man who loves God