Wesley Corpus

She seemed to be just ripe for the Gospel, which she drank in with all her soul. God speedily brought her to the blood of sprinkling, and a few days after she died in peace. I preached in the evening at Bedford, and the next day, Thursday, 29, at Luton. We had a miserable preaching-house here : But Mr. Cole has now fitted up a very neat and commo dious Room, which was thoroughly filled with well-behaved and deeply attentive hearers. How long did we seem to be ploughing the sand here ! But it seems there will be some fruit at last. Fri. 30.--I preached at noon to fifty or sixty dull creatures, at poor, desolate Hertford; and they heard with something like seriousness. In the afternoon I went on to London. Sunday, NoveMBER 1, was the day appointed for opening the new chapel in the City-Road. It is perfectly meat, but not fine; and contains far more people than the Foundery : I believe, together with the morning chapel, as many as the Tabernacle. Many were afraid that the multitudes, crowding from all parts, would have occasioned much disturbance. But they were happily disappointed: There was none at all: All was quietness, decency, and order. I preached on part of Solomon’s Prayer at the Dedication of the Temple; and both in the morning and afternoon, (when I preached on the hundred forty and four thousand standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion,) God was eminently present in the midst of the congregation. Mon. 2.-I went to Chatham, and preached in the evening to a lively, loving congregation. Tuesday, 3. I went by water to Sheerness. Our Room being far too small for the people that attended, I sent to the Governor to desire (what had been allowed me before) the use of the chapel. He refused me, (uncivilly enough,) affecting to doubt whether I was in orders' So I preached to as many as it would contain in our own Room. Wed. 4.--I took a view of the old church at Minster, once a spacious and elegant building. It stands pleasantly on the top of a hill, and commands all the country round. We went from thence to Queensborough, which contains above fifty houses, and sends two members to Parliament. Surely the whole Isle of Sheppy is now but a shadow of what it was once. Thur.