Wesley Corpus

was the second thing to be considered, not only from those evils which prudence might have prevented or piety removed even in this life, but from those which were inseparable there from, which were their unavoidable portion on earth. They are now at rest, whom wicked men would not suffer to rest before ; for into the seat of the spirits ofjust men none but the spirits of the just can enter. They are at length hid from the scourge of the tongue : Their name is not here cast out as evil. Abra ham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Prophets do not revile or separate them from their com pany. They are no longer despightfully used and persecuted ; neither do they groan under the hand of the oppressor. No injustice, no malice, no fraud is there ; they are all " Israel ites indeed, in whom is no guile." There are no sinners against their own souls; therefore there is no painful pity, no fear for them. There are no blasphemers of God or of his word, no profaners of his name or of his sab? baths ; no denier of the Lord that bought him, none that tramples upon the blood of his ever lasting covenant r 'in a word, no earthly -or