Wesley Corpus

Tuesday, 5. Being not very well in the morning, I desired Joseph Bradford to preach. In the evening I preached on, “Remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works.” Many, I believe, are earnestly purposed so to do. May God give them the power! Wednesday, 6. I preached on that remarkable prophecy, Gen. ix. 27, which is so eminently fulfilled at this day, wherein God does “seize the servile progeny of Ham.” Thursday, 7. I went to Bandon, and finished the Life of Baron Trenck; the strangest I ever read. Was there ever such a fiend incarnate as the late King of Prussia? To inflict such unheard-of tor ments for so many years, for no fault | Good had it been for him, if he had never been born. Yet, what a wretch was Trenck himself! He made not the least scruple of adultery and 454 REv. J. Wesley’s [May, 1789. murder; and does not appear to have had a jot more religion than an inhabitant of Otaheitel I think, therefore, this is a most dangerous book; I wish none that cares for his soul would read a page of it. In the evening I preached in the new preaching-house, twice or thrice as large as the old. It was well filled both this evening and the next; but I did not find the same life in this people as in those at Cork. But God is able to cause all grace to abound here also. Saturday, 9. I returned to Cork, and earnestly enforced, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Sun. 10.--After preaching, I administered the Lord's Supper to about four hundred and fifty communicants. I was enabled to speak with power in the evening to more than the House could contain, and afterwards to the society. May God write it on all their hearts | I am now clear of their blood. Mon. 11.--At half an hour after two we reached Kilkenny; and at six I preached on, “One thing is needful.” A few seemed to understand what I meant; as also at five in the morning, when I expounded, “There is neither work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Tuesday, 12. I felt myself a good deal out of order. However, I pushed on to Limerick, where the Rev. Mr.