Wesley Corpus

But I am nothing obliged to him for creating me, since he did it only for his own pleasure. Neither can I believe that he is good; since he can remove all the evil in the world if he will: And, therefore, it is God’s fault, and no one's else, that there is any evil in the universe.” I am afraid we could not deny this, if we allowed that God had “from all eternity, unchangeably determined everything, great and small, which comes to pass in time.” Mon. 7.--I had an hour's conversation with that amiable young man, Mr. de C , whose opinion has not yet spoiled his temper. But how long will he hold out against its baleful tendency? I fear, not to the end of the year. Tues. 15.--I dined at Mr. M 's, an upright man, willing to know and to live the Gospel. I cannot but think he would be an eminent Christian if he were not rich. Sun. 20.--While I was opening and applying, at West Street chapel, those comfortable words, “He knoweth whereof we are made; he remembereth that we are but dust,” it pleased God to speak to many hearts, and to fill them with strong consolation. Now let them “walk as children of the light,” and they shall no more come into darkness. Wed. 23.--For what cause I know not to this day, set out for Newcastle, purposing “never to return.” Non eam reliqui: Non dimisi: Non revocabo.” Fri. 25.--I revised and transcribed my Will, declaring as simply, as plainly, and as briefly as I could, nothing more nor nothing else, but “what I would have done with the worldly goods which I leave behind me.” Sun. 27.--I buried the remains of Joan Turner, who spent all her last hours in rejoicing and praising God, and died full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, at three years and an half old. Thur. FEBRUARY 7.--I met with that ingenious tract, “A Dialogue between Moses and Lord Bolingbroke.” It contains many striking and beautiful thoughts; yet some things in it are not quite clear. It is not clear, that Moses includes in his account neither more nor less than the solar system. Probably he speaks, either solely of the creation of the Earth, and of other bodies as related thereto: Or of the Universe, the fixed stars, (mentioned Gen. i.