Wesley Corpus

The Room being far too small, I was desired to preach in the church yard. On the ringing of the bells, I removed thence to the market-house, where we had more than double the congrega tion, the snow-ball gathering all the way we went. Tues. 23.--About cleven I preached at Drifficld. The sun was extremely hot; but I was tolerably screened by a shady tree. In the evening I preached at Beverley, and on Wednesday, 24, in the new House at Hull, extremely well finished, and, upon the whole, one of the prettiest preaching houses in England. The next evening we were crowded enough. Being informed that many Antinomians were present, I preached on, “God sent his own Son,-that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Fri. 26.--I went on to York. The next day I read over Mr. Else’s ingenious “Treatise on the Hydrocele.” He supposes the best cure is by a seton or a caustic; but I am not inclined to try either of them. I know a Physician that has a shorter cure than either one or the other. Mon. 29.--I preached, about ten, at Tadcaster, and in the July, 1772.] JOURNAL. 475 evening at Pateley-Bridge. Tuesday, 30. Calling at a little inn on the Moors, I spoke a few words to an old man there, as my wife did to the woman of the house. They both appeared to be deeply affected. Perhaps Providence sent us to this house for the sake of these two poor souls. In the evening I preached in the new House at Otley, as neat as that at Hull; and the people appeared to be much alive; so that I was greatly comforted among them. Sat. JULY 4.--I rode to the Ewood, to S. Lockwood’s, formerly the wife of young Mr. Grimshaw, afterward married to Mr. Lockwood, and now again a young widow. Her sister was with her, the relict of Mr. Sutcliffe, whose case was very uncommon. He had for some time used the cold bath for a nervous disorder, and was advised to try the warm. Imme diately he was seized with racking pains all over, and in two hours expired.