Wesley Corpus

“I wroTE to you to ask if those who before met at brother Guilford's might not meet in the chapel. Soon after you came to town, the Preachers were brought into the meeting, though you told me again and again they should not come.” (True; but since I said this, there has been an entire change in the situation of things.) “Had I known this, I would rather have paid for a room out of my own pocket. I am not speaking of the people that met at the Foundery before; though I let some of them come to that meeting. If you intend to have the Preachers there to watch, and others that I think very unfit, and will not give me liberty to give leave to some that I think fit to be there, I shall not think it my duty to meet them.” So from this time he kept a separate meeting elsewhere. Sun. 6.--Knowing many were greatly tempted on occasion of these occurrences, I preached on, (1 Cor. x. 13,) “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” In the evening we had a love-feast, at which many spoke with all simplicity; and their words were like fire. I hardly know when we have had so refreshing a season. Mon. 7.--One who is very intimate with them that had left us, told me in plain terms, “Sir, the case lies here: They say Feb. 1763.] JOURNAL, 129 you are only an hypocrite, and therefore they can have no fellowship with you.” So now the wonder is over. First, it was revealed to them, that all the people were dead to God. Then they saw that all the Preachers were so too; only, for a time, they excepted me. At last they discern me to be blind and dead too. Now let him help them that can Thur. 10.--I rode to Brentford, expecting to find disagree able work there also; but I was happily disappointed. Not one seemed inclined to leave the society, and some were added to it; and the congregation was not only quiet, but more deeply attentive than is usual in this place. Hence I rode, on Friday, 11, to Shoreham, and buried the remains of Mrs.