Are you a witness of the religion of love? Are you a lover of God and all [people]? Does your heart glow with gratitude to the Giver of every good and perfect gift .... Is your soul warm with benevolence to all [hu]mankind? ... Do you "love, not in word" only, "but in deed and in truth?" Do you persevere in the "work of faith, and the labour of Love?" Do you "walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us?" Do you, as you have time, "do good unto all ..." and in as high a degree as you are able? Whosoever thus "doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Whosoever thou art, whose heart is herein as my heart, give me thine hand! Come, and let us magnify the Lord together, and labour to promote his kingdom upon earth! Let us join hearts and hands in this blessed work, in striving to bring glory to God in the highest, by establishing peace and good-will among [people], to the uttermost of our power!
~John Wesley (Sermon 132, 'On the Laying the Foundation of the New Chapel")
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