Wesley Corpus

Law of this, wanted either sense or honesty. “He is so deeply displeased with the “Address to the Clergy, because it speaks strongly in favour of learning; but still, if this part of it is only ‘fit for an old grammarian, 20 REv. J. Wesley’s [Sept. 1760. grown blear-eyed in mending dictionaries, it will not follow that “almost all of it is mere empty babble; for a large part of it much more strongly insists on a single eye, and a clean heart. Heathen Philosophers may term this ‘empty babble;’ but let not Christians either account or call it so !” Wed. 17.--The Room at St. Just was quite full at five, and God gave us a parting blessing. At noon I preached on the cliff near Penzance, where no one now gives an uncivil word. Here I procured an account, from an eye-witness, of what happened the twenty-seventh of last month. A round pillar, narrowest at bottom, of a whitish colour, rose out of the sea near Mousehole, and reached the clouds. One who was riding over the strand from Marazion to Penzance saw it stand for a short space, and then move swiftly toward her, till, the skirt of it touching her, the horse threw her and ran away. It had a strong sulphurous smell. It dragged with it abundance of sand and pebbles from the shore; and then went over the land, carrying with it corn, furze, or whatever it found in its way. It was doubtless a kind of water-spout; but a water spout on land, I believe, is seldom seen. The storm drove us into the House at Newlyn also. Thursday, 18. As we rode from thence, in less than half an hour we were wet to the skin; but when we came to Penhale, the rain ceased; and, the people flocking from all parts, we had a comfortable opportunity together. About six I preached near Helstone. The rain stopped till I had done, and soon after was as violent as before. Fri. 19.--I rode to Illogan. We had heavy rain before I began, but scarce any while I was preaching. I learned several other particulars here concerning the water-spout. It was seen near Mousehole an hour before sunset. About sunset it began travelling over the land, tearing up all the furze and shrubs it met.