Wesley Corpus

Thur. 19.-I went on to Mr. Bowen's at Llyngwair; another most agreeable place; but more so because of the company, L Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, his brother, and six of their eleven child ren, two of whom are lately come from the University. Friday, 20. About eight I preached in the church at Newport, and spoke strong words, if haply some might awake out of sleep. Thence we went to Haverfordwest; it being the day when the Bishop held his visitation. As I was returning in the afternoon from visiting some of the poor people, a carriage in the street obliged me to walk very near a Clergyman, who made me a low bow : I did the same to him; though I did not then know the Bishop; who has indeed won the hearts of the people in general by his courteous and obliging behaviour. Sun. 22.-I heard a good sermon in the church at Carmar then, (being the Assize sermon,) on, “There is no power but of God.” In the evening I preached in the market-place, to, I think, the largest congregation I ever saw in Wales. Thurs day, 26. On the road I read over Voltaire's Memoirs of him self. Certainly never was a more consummate coxcomb! But even his character is less horrid than that of his royal hero ! Surely so unnatural a brute never disgraced a throne before Cedite, Romani Catamiti / Cedite, Grail /* A monster that made it a fixed rule to let no woman and no Priest enter his palace; that not only gloried in the constant practice of Sodomy himself, but made it free for all his subjects 1 * Ye Catamites among the Greeks and Romans, concede to this wretch the palm of criminality.--EDIT. 288 REv. J. wesley’s [Sept. 1784. What a pity that his father had not beheaded him in his youth, and saved him from all this sin and shame ! In the evening I preached in the Town-Hall at Cardiff, and showed the scriptural meaning of that much-mistaken word, “A Christian.” Friday, 27. I preached at Newport. I hardly know such another place; the people hear, and hear, and are as much moved as the benches they sit upon.