Wesley Corpus

Nor 1s their Religion more pure from heresy, than it is from superstition, In former times, wherever an unusual concern for the things of God had appeared, on the one hand, strange and enormous Opinions continually sprung up with it; on the other, a Zeal for things which were no part of Religion, as though they had been essential branches of it. And many have laid as great (if not greater) stress on trifles, as on the weightier matters of the law. But it has not been so in the present case. No stress has been laid on any thing, as tho? it were necessary to salvation, but what is undeniably. contained in the word of God. And of the things contained therein, the stress laid on each, has been in proportion to the nearness of its relation; to what 3 there ; | -- -- ------ nr Ce, -- -- To Men of Reason and Religion, 234 there laid down as the sum of all, the love of God and our neighbour. So pure srom superstition, so thoroughly feriptural is that Religion, which has lately spread in