Wesley Corpus

30.-I had appointed to preach at five in the morning; but soon after four I was saluted by a concert of music, both vocal and instrumental, at our gate, making the air ring with a hymn to the tune of Judas Maccabeus: It was a good prelude. So I began almost half an hour before five ; yet the House was crowded both above and below. I strongly, but very tenderly, enforced that caution, “Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.” And is not God able to make them stand 2 Yea, and he will do it, if they walk humbly with God. In the evening I preached at Congleton to a serious and well-established people. Here I found my coeval, Mr.2 two months (I think) younger than me, just as a lamp going out for want of oil, gently sliding into a better world: He sleeps always, only waking now and then just long enough to say, “I am happy.”- Sat. 31.-I went on to Macclesfield, and found a people still alive to God, in spite of swiftly increasing riches. If they continue so, it will be the only instance I have known, in above half a century. I warned them in the strongest terms I could, and believe some of them had ears to hear. Sun. APRIL 1.--Fearing nothing so much as lest a people so much at ease should settle upon their lees, I preached at the new church, in the most awakening manner I could, on Rev. xx. 11: “I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it,” &c. I then hastened to Manchester; and endeavoured to convince a crowded congregation of the full spiritual meaning of those important words, “By grace are ye saved, through faith.” Mon. 2.--About noon I preached at Stockport, and in the evening at Manchester; where I fully delivered my own soul, both then, and the next day. Wednesday, 4. I went to Chester, and preached in the evening on Heb. iii. 12. Finding there was no packet at Parkgate, I immediately took places in the mail-coach for Holyhead. The porter called us at two in the morning, on Thursday, but came again in half an hour, to inform us the coach was full; so they returned my money, and at four I took a post-chaise.