Wesley Corpus

Fri. 16.-I was going to preach in the market-place at Ca melford, where a few are still alive to God, when a violent storm drove us into the House; that is, as many as could squeeze in. The fire quickly kindled among them, and seemed to touch every heart. My text was, “What doest thou here, Elijah o' And God himself made the application. A flame was once more raised in this town: May it never more be put out ! In the evening I preached in Mr. Wood’s yard, at Port Isaac, to most of the inhabitants of the town. The same spirit was here as at Camelford, and seemed to move upon every heart. And we had all a good hope, that the days of faintness and weariness are over, and that the work of God will revive and flourish. Sat. 17.--We found Mr. Hoskins, at Cubert, alive ; but just tottering over the grave. I preached in the evening, on 2 Cor. v. 1-4, probably the last sermon he will hear from me. I was afterwards inquiring, if that scandal of Cornwall, the plundering of wrecked vessels, still subsisted. He said, “As much as ever; only the Methodists will have nothing to do with it. But three months since a vessel was wrecked on the south coast, and the tinners presently seized on all the goods; and even broke in pieces a new coach which was on board, and 84 REv. J. wesley’s [Aug. 1776. carried every scrap of it away.” But is there no way to pre vent this shameful breach of all the laws both of religion and humanity? Indeed there is. The Gentry of Cornwall may totally prevent it whenever they please. Let them only see that the laws be strictly executed upon the next plunderers; and after an example is made of ten of these, the next wreck will be unmolested. Nay, there is a milder way. Let them only agree together, to discharge any tinner or labourer that is concerned in the plundering of a wreck, and advertise his name, that no Cornish gentleman may employ him any more ; and neither tinner nor labourer will any more be concerned in that bad work. Sun. 18.--The passage through the sands being bad for a chaise, I rode on horseback to St.