Wesley Corpus

taneously, they follow the bent of his mind, and dwell On the beloved object ; all his words are dictated by his heart, for out of the abun dance of the heart the mouth speaketh ; all his actions are the result of pure choice. Love is the breath of his soul, the full exertion of all his powers, the perfection of all its faculties ; therefore since the enjoyment of these was the one end of our creation, the recovering of them is " the one thing needful." The same truth appears, secondly, from its being the end of our redemption by Jesus Christ ; of all that our blessed Lord did and suffered for us ; of his incarnation, his life, his death, his resurrection, his ascension into hea ven, and the descent of the Holy Spirit. All these miracles of love were wrought with no other view than to restore us to health and freedom, to happiness and immortality. Thus he himself testifies of the end of his coming into this world : " The Spirit of the Lord is upon me he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives;" or, as the prophet expresses it, " to preach good tidings to the meek, to bind up the broken-