Wesley Corpus

he eminently needs ; but if we move one step beyond this, we are lost again. We cannot explain wherefore it was that such a man was suffered to be naturally inclined to that evil or averse to that good. Or if it should occur, as it sometimes does, that we can assign a reason for any notorious fault in our natural temper, yet we only put off our ignorance one remove, and return to our doubt. Thus, if we perceive our nature is peculiarly prone to some hateful sin, because there is no other method of bringing us to humility, with out which all our actions are displeasing to the God who seeks the humble and contrite spirit, yet the difficulty recurs Why did the good God permit me to be so prone to pride ? And here at least we must stop ; we have only to rest on his good pleasure, and own " that his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out!" Innumerable are the other instances wherein it is obvious that man knoweth not the ways of God, that he never designed us to be of his council, or privy to the secret springs of hi conduct ; why he gives to this man one en