Wesley Corpus

‘“‘ He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!” Mark the tendency of this accursed principle ! If you will speak only to those who are willing to hear, see how many you will turn from the error of their ways! If, therefore, striving to do good, you have done hurt, what then! So did St. Paul. So did the Lord of life. Even His word was “ the savour of death, as well as the savour of life.” But shall you, therefore, strive no more? God forbid! Strive more humbly, more calmly, more cautiously. Do not strive as you did before,--but strive while the breath of God is in your nostrils ! / luly, 1736. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 27 Being to leave Frederica in the evening, I took the more notice of these words in the Lesson for the day: “ Whereunto shall I liken the men of this generation? They are like unto children sitting in the market place, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine ; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking ; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!” Luke vii, 31-34. About eleven at night we took boat ; and on Saturday 26, about one in the afternoon, came to Savannah. O what do we want here either for life or godliness! If suffering, God will send it in his time. Sun. 277.--About twenty joined with us in morning prayer. An hour or two after, a large party of Creek Indians came; the expectation of whom deprived us of our place of public worship, in which they were to have their audience.