Wesley Corpus

I preached his funeral sermon to a crowded audience, on the text which he had chosen: “Let me die the death of the righteous; and let my last end be like his l’” Monday, 19, and the following days, I read with the Preachers what I judged most useful: And we endeavoured to “provoke one another to love and to good works.” Thur. 22.--I walked, with one that belongs to the family, through the Queen’s house. The apartments are nothing so rich as those in Blenheim House, but full as elegant. Nor is anything in Blenheim itself more grand than the staircase and the saloon. But I was quite disappointed in the Cartoons; they are but the shadow of what they were: The colours are so entirely faded, that you can hardly distinguish what they Were Once. Sun. 25.--I buried the body of Esther Grimaldi, who died in the full triumph of faith. “A mother in Israel” hast thou been ; and thy “works shall praise thee in the gates 1’’ During the twelve festival days, we had the Lord's Supper daily; a little emblem of the Primitive Church. May we be followers of them in all things, as they were of Christ! Sun. JANUARY 1, 1775.-We had a larger congregation at the renewal of the Covenant than we have had for many years: w Feb. 1775.] JOURNAL. 39 And I do not know that ever we had a greater blessing. Afterwards many desired to return thanks, either for a sense of pardon, for full salvation, or for a fresh manifestation of his grace, healing all their backslidings. Tues. 10.--I set out for Bedfordshire, and in the evening preached at Luton. Wednesday, 11. I crept on through a miserable road to Bedford, but was well rewarded by the behaviour of the congregation. Thur. 12.--We crossed over the country to Godmanchester. The whole town seemed to be moved. The people flocked together from all parts, so that the barn would in nowise con tain them. I found great liberty of speech among them, and could not doubt but God would confirm the word of his messenger. Fri. 13.--Even at poor, dead Hertford was such a concourse of people, that the Room would not near contain them. And most of them were deeply attentive while I explained these awful words, “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.” Sun.