O God, who are the giver of all good gifts, I your unworthy servant entirely desire to praise your name for all the expressions of your bounty torward me. Blessed be your love for giving your son to die for our sins, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. Blessed be your love for all the temporal benefits which you have with a liberal hand poured out upon me; for my health and strength, food and raiment, and all other necessities with which you have provided your sinful servant. I also bless you, that after all my refusals of your grace , you still have patienve with me and have given me yet another day to renew and perfect my repentance.
Make yourself always present to my mind, and let your love fill and rule my soul, in all those places, and companies, and employments to which you call me this day. O you who are good and do good, who extend your loving kindness to all mankind, the work of your hands ,your image, capable of knowing and loving you eternally:suffer me to exclude none, O Lord, from my charity, who are the objects of your mercy; but let me treat all my neighbors with that tender love which is due to your servants and to your children. Let your love to me, O blessed Savior, be the pattern of my love to them.
John Wesley
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