Wesley Corpus

Wed. AUGUST 1.--It was with difficulty I reached Cowbridge about one, where the congregation was waiting. I found they had had heavy rain great part of the day; but very little fell upon us. Nor do I remember that from the beginning of March till now we have been in more than one heavy shower of rain, either in England, Scotland, or Wales. I preached in the evening at Llandaff, and on Thursday, 2, in the Town-Hall at Cardiff. Saturday, 4. We crossed at the New-Passage, and rode on to Bristol. Sun. 5.--I preached in Prince’s Street at eight; at two, under the sycamore-tree at Kingswood; and at five, near King’s Square in Bristol. How many thousands in this city do see in this “their day, the things that belong to their peace l’’ On Monday, the 6th, our Conference began. The great point I now laboured for was a good understanding with all our brethren of the Clergy who are heartily engaged in propagating vital religion. Saturday, 11. I took chaise early in the morning, and at night came safe to London. Sun. 12.--In the afternoon I preached in Moorfields on those comfortable words, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Thousands heard with calm and deep attention. This also hath God wrought! Mon. 13.--I was again as fully employed as at the Confer ence, in visiting classes from morning till night. Saturday, 18. I preached, for the first time, in our new chapel at Snows fields, on, “O, how amiable are thy tabernacles, thou Lord of hosts l” Sun. 19.--Meeting with a pious and sensible man, who was born in the Isle of Skye, I said, “Tell me freely, did you yourself ever know a second-sighted man?” He answered, after a little pause, “I have known more than one or two.” I said, “But were they not deceivers?--How do you know they were really such?” He replied, “I have been in company with them, when they dropped down as dead. Sept. 1764.] JOURNAL. 195 Coming to themselves, they looked utterly amazed, and said, ‘I have been in such a place, and I saw such and such persons (perhaps fifty miles off) die in such a manner;’ and when inquiry was made, I never could find that they were mistaken in one circumstance.