Wesley Corpus

. * A call to the work, and a call to the office.-EDIT. 218 REv. J. weslEY’s [May, 1765. W. I shall submit to any trial you shall please to make. I shall present your Lordship with a Confession of my Faith, or take what other way you please to insist on. B. No, we are not come to that yet. W. I shall desire those severals laid together which I look on as justifying my preaching:-- 1. I was devoted to the service from mine infancy. 2. I was educated in order thereto at school, and in the University of Oxford. B. What age are you? W. Twenty-five. B. No, sure you are not. W. 3. As a son of the Prophets, after I had taken my degrees, I preached in the country; being approved of by judicious, able Christians, Ministers and others. 4. It pleased God to seal my labour with success, in the apparent conversion of many souls. B. Yea, that is, it may be, to your way. W. Yea, to the power of godliness, from ignorance and profaneness. If it please your Lordship to lay down any evi dences of godliness agreeing with Scripture, and that are not found in those persons intended, I am content to be discharged the ministry. I will stand or fall on the issue thereof. B. You talk of the power of godliness, such as you fancy. W. Yea, to the reality of religion. Let us appeal to any common-place book for evidences of graces, and they are found in and upon them. B. How many are there of them? W. I number not the people. B. Where are they? W. Wherever I have been called to preach --At Radpole, Melcomb, Turnwood, Whitchurch, and at sea. I shall add another ingredient of my mission: 5. When the Church saw the presence of God going along with me, they did, by fasting and prayer, in a day set apart for that end, seek an abundant blessing on my endeavours. B. A particular Church? W. Yes, my Lord: I am not ashamed to own myself a member of one. B. Why, you may mistake the Apostles’ intent. They went about to convert Heathens: You have no warrant for your particular Churches. May, 1765.] JOURNAL. 219. W.