Wesley Corpus

Some now living remember since his body was entire. But after the coffin was opened, so many were curious to taste the liquor in which it was preserved, that in a little time the corpse was left bare, and then soon mouldered away. A few bones are now all that remain. How little is the spirit concerned at this ! 408 REv. J. wesLEY’s [Aug. 1770. Sunday, 5, and for five or six days this week, the heat was as great as I remember in Georgia. Tuesday, 7. Our Conference began, and ended on Friday, 10. On Sunday evening I set out in the machine, and the next evening preached at Bristol. Saturday, 18. I gave a solemn warning to a large congregation on Redcliff-Hill, from those awful words, “The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God.” Surely it will; unless a general repentance prevent a general visitation. Mon. 20.-Irode to Charlton. The violent heat continuing, I preached in the evening under a tree to a congregation who were all attention. Tuesday, 21. I rode on to Tiverton, and thence through Launceston, Camelford, Port-Isaac, Cubert, St. Agnes, and Redruth, to St. Ives. Here God has made all our enemies to be at peace with us, so that I might have preached in any part of the town. But I rather chose a meadow, where such as would might sit down, either on the grass or on the hedges,--so the Cornish term their broad stone walls, which are usually covered with grass. Here I enforced, “Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.” Sun. 26.--Being desired to preach in the town, for the sake of some who could not come up the hill, I began near the market-place, at eight, on, “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” We had an useful sermon at church, and another in the afternoon, delivered in a strong and earnest manner. At five I preached again. Well nigh all the town were present, and thousands from all parts of the country; to whom I explained, “The Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil.” Mon. 27.--I was surprised to find, that the select society had been wholly neglected. I got a few of them together; but did not find so much as one, who had not given up his confidence.