Wesley Corpus

24.--In the afternoon, notice having been given a week before, I went to the Room at Preston-Pans. And I had it all to myself; neither man, woman, nor child, offered to look me in the face: So I ordered a chair to be placed in the street. Then forty or fifty crept together; but they were mere stocks and stones; no more concerned than if I had talked Greek. In the evening I preached in the new Room at Edinburgh, a large and commodious building. Mon. 26.--I spent some hours at the meeting of the National Assembly. I am very far from being of Mr. Whitefield's mind, who greatly commends the solemnity of this meeting. I have seen few less solemn: I was extremely shocked at the behaviour of many of the members. Had any Preacher behaved so at our Conference, he would have had no more place among us. Wed. 28.--I preached at Leith, and spoke exceeding plain. A few received the truth in the love thereof. Sun. JUNE 1.--Many of the Ministers were present at seven, with a large and serious congregation. In the afternoon June, 1766.] JOURNAL, 251 I heard a thundering sermon in the new kirk, occasioned by Mr. Jardin's (a Minister) dropping down dead in the Assembly a day or two before. I preached in the evening on “The Spirit and the Bride say, Come!” A few, I trust, closed with the invitation. Mon. 2.--I came to Dundee, wet enough. But it cleared up in the evening, so that I preached abroad to a large congrega tion, many of whom attended in the morning. Tuesday, 3. The congregation was still larger in the evening, but on Wednesday the rain kept us in the House. Thursday, 5. It being fair, we had a more numerous congregation than ever; to whom, after preaching, I took occasion to repeat most of the plausible objections which had been made to us in Scotland. I then showed our reasons for the things which had been objected to us, and all seemed to be throughly satisfied. The sum of what I spoke was this:-- “I love plain-dealing. Do not you? I will use it now. Bear with me. “I hang out no false colours; but show you all I am, all I intend, all I do.