Wesley Corpus

Sun. April 4.--About four in the afternoon I set out for Frederica, in a pettiawga, (a sort of flat-bottomed barge.) The next evening we anchored near Skidoway Island, where the water, at flood, was twelve or fourteen foot deep. I wrapped myself up from head to foot in a large cloak, to keep off the sand flies, and lay down on the quarter-deck. Between one and two I waked under water, being so fast asleep that I did not find where I was till my mouth was full of it. Having left my cloak, 1 know not how, upon deck, I.swam round to the other side of the pettiawga, where a boat was tied, and climbed up by the rope without any hurt, more than wetting my clothes. Thou art the God of whom cometh salvation: thou art the Lord by whom we escape death. The winds were so contrary, that on Saturday 10, we could but just get over against Doboy Island, twenty miles from Frederica, but could not possibly make the creek, having a strong tide also against us. Here we lay beating off till past one, when the lightning and rain, which we had long seen at a distance, drove down full upon us; till, after a quarter of an hour, the clouds parted, some passing on the right, and some on the left, leaving us a clear sky, and so strong a wind right after us, as in two hours brought us to Frederica. A little before we landed, f opened my Testament on these words : ‘“« If God be for us, who can be against us?” Coming on shore, I found my brother exceeding weak, having been for some time ill of a flux ; but he mended from the hour he saw me. ‘This also hath God wrought! Sun. 11.--I preached at the new Storehouse on the first verse of the Gospel for the day: ** Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?” There was a large congregation, whom I| endeavoured to convince of unbelief, by simply proposing the conditions of salvation, as they are laid down in Scripture ; and appealing to thei: own hearts, whether they believed they could be saved on no other terms.