Wesley Corpus

27.-About noon I preached in the piazza, adjoining to the Coinage-Hall in Truro. I was enabled to speak exceed ing plain, on, “Ye are saved through faith.” I doubt the Antinomians gnashed on me with their teeth; but I must declare “the whole counsel of God.” In the evening I preached in an open space at Mevagissey, to most of the inhabitants of the town; where I saw a very rare thing, men swiftly increasing in substance, and yet not decreasing in holiness. Wed. 28.--The rain drove us into the House at St. Austle, where I think some of the stout-hearted trembled. The next evening I preached at Medros, and was pleased to see an old friend, with his wife, his two sons and two daughters. I believe God sent a message to their hearts, as they could not help showing by their tears. Sun. SEPTEMBER 1.--I got to Plymouth church a little after the Service began. I admired the seriousness and decency of the congregation: None bowed or courtesied, or looked about them. And at the Lord's Supper, although both the Ministers spoke so low in delivering the elements, that none who were not very near could hear a word they said, yet was the congregation as still as if no one had been in the church. I was likewise agreeably surprised at their number: When I was in the church in Hull, I think we had six communicants, beside those that came with me: Here I suppose were full three hundred. Immediately after Service I went to the quay, and preached on those words in the Epistle for the day, “The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.” I won dered at the exquisite stupidity of the hearers, particularly the soldiers; who seemed to understand no more of the patter than so many oxen. So I told them in very plain terms; and some of them were ashamed. Mon. 2.-In my way to Exeter, I read over an ingenious tract, containing some observations which I never saw before.