Wesley Corpus

rove me; try out my reins and my heart. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me, and lead me in the way everlasting ? ”? 36. Have I not, at least, healed the hurt of thy people slightly? Have I not said, Peace, Peace, when there was no peace ?*---- How many are they also that do this ? Who do not {tudy to speak. what is true, especially to the rich and great, so much as what is pleasing? Who flatter honourable finners, instead of telling them plain, 6 How can ye escape the damnation of hell?” O What an account have you to make, if there be a God that --_-- -- e ne or 204 A raxTHeR APPEAL, Part II. that judgeth the earth? Will he not require at your hands the blood of all these souls, of whom ye are the betrayers and murderers? Well spake the prophets of your fathers, in whose steps ye now tread, ** They have. seduced my people, and one built up a wall, and another daubed it with untempered mortar. They strengthen the hands of the evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness. They prophely lies in my name, faith the Lord. They say unto them that despise me, ye shall have peace, and unto them that walk after the imagination of their own heart, no evil shall come upon you. AN How great will your damnation be, who destroy souls, instead of saving them? Where will you apear, or how will you stand, in that great and terrible day of the Lord ! How will ye lift up your head, when “ the Lord shall descend from heaven in flaming fire, to take vengeance on his adversaries !*” More elpecially on those who have so betrayed his cause, and done Satan's work under the banner of Christ! With what voice wilt thou say, * Behold me, Lord, and the theep whom thou hadst given me, whom I gave to the Devil, and told them they were in the way to heaven, till they dropped into hell?“