Mrs. Wesley discusses with exquisite good sense the whole ethics
of pleasure:
“Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure
take this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the
tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or
takes off the relish of spiritual things--in short, whatever
increases the strength and authority of your body over your
mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in
itself.”
The wisest of casuists might find it difficult to better that
interpretation of human duty!--W. H. FITCHETT, “Wesley
and His Century.”
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