Wesley Corpus

2. Yet it is not wholly for their sake, but for your own also that I now write. It may be, the " Father of lights," the giver of " every good gift," may even by a mean instrument speak to your hearts. My continual desire and prayer to God is, that you may clearly see " what is that good and perfect will" of the Lord; and fully discern how to separate that which is precious among you from the vile. 3. Ihave delayed thus long, because I loved you, and was therefore, unwilling to prieve you in any thing; anc likewise because I was afraid of creating another obstacle to that union which (if I know my own heart in any degree) I desire above all things under heaven. But I dare no longer delay, lest my silence should be a snare to any others of the children of God ; and lest you yourselves should be more confirmed in what I cannot reconcile to the Law and the Testimony. This would strengthen the bar which I long to remove; and were that once taken out of the way, I should rejoice to be a door keeper in the house of God, a hewer of wood or drawer of water, among you. Surely I would follow you to the ends of the earth, or remain with you in the uttermost parts of the sea. So called by themselves, though improperly, 4, What unites my heart to you is, the excellency (in many respects) of the ductrine taught among you: your laying the true foundation, "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself ;" your declaring the free grace of God the cause, and faith the condition, of justification ; your bearing witness to those great fruits of faith, "' righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost ;" and that sure mark thereof, "He that is born of God doth not commit sin."