Wesley Corpus

wherein the Almighty hath threatened the pains of hell to all those who will not obey his, will;. and how this may be fulfilled without this entire surrender of ourselves to his service is more than Revelation has made known to us. We are therein taught to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind, and to do him service with all our soul and with all our strength ; and this, under pain of being utterly excluded from his presence if we fail in the performance of it. We are expressly told in St. Luke, xiv. 33, that whosoever he be that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be the disciple of Christ. Now what can possibly be more plain than these words, the sense of which evidently is that, unless we renounce every thing in this world so far as that our affections may be placed solely on God, we cannot be his disciples. And if we be not his, what will become of our hope of salvation by Jesus Christ? Certainly the being excluded from the name of his disciple is an exclusion from heaven, which he died to purchase for us. But whoever desires to see the awful condemnation which awaiteth this