Wesley Corpus

A--’s, in the Maze-pond, Southwark; but both Mr. A-- and his wife informed me they were determined to quit the house as soon as possible, by reason of strange noises, which they heard day and night, but in the night chiefly, as if all the tables and chairs had been thrown up and down, in the rooms above and under them. Sun. 2.-Mr. Maxfield continuing ill, I preached this after noon at his chapel. Prejudice seems now dying away : God grant it may never revive Tuesday, 11. I buried the remains of Sarah Clay, many years a mother in Israel; the last of those holy women, who, being filled with love, forty years ago devoted themselves wholly to God, to spend and be spent in his service. Feb. 1783.] J()URNAL. 243 Her death was like her life, calm and easy. She was dress ing herself when she dropped down and fell asleep. Mon. 17.--I had an opportunity of attending the Lecture of that excellent man, Dr. Conyers. He was quite an ori ginal; his matter was very good, his manner very bad; but it is enough that God owned him, both in the conviction and conversion of sinners. Thur. 20.--I went to Dorking; and in the afternoon took a walk through the lovely gardens of Lord Grimstone. His father-in-law, who laid them out, is some time since num bered with the dead; and his son-in-law, living elsewhere, has not so much as the beholding them with his eyes! Fri. 21.-At our yearly meeting for that purpose, we exa mined our yearly accounts, and found the money received (just answering the expense) was upwards of three thousand pounds a year; but that is nothing to me: What I receive of it yearly, is neither more nor less than thirty pounds. To-day Charles Greenwood went to rest. He had been a melancholy man all his days, full of doubts and fears, and con tinually writing bitter things against himself.