Wesley Corpus

state more fully represented, let him hear what the Spirit of God saith to the angel of the church of Laodicea (Rev. iii. 15, 6): know thy works, that thou art neither hot nor cold ; so then because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Tremendous doom of the luke warm and indifferent in religion! see we not here that the lukewarm Christian (if we will call him such) is debased even below him who professes no religion f " I wish thou wert either hot or cold :" so saith the Spirit; showing that coldness, or an absolute neglect of religion was a more desirable state than lukewarmness or indifference : add to all which, the tremen dous doom which attends it, " because thou art neither hot nor cold," I will cast thee from me, and withdraw my grace from every one who maketh no better use of it than do the lukewarm and indifferent. The folly of living in such a state, of dividing our hearts between God and the world, may be easily collected from the danger of it. The service of God is the most honourable, easy, and profitable, that we can be occupied in ; , it