Wesley Corpus

Sai. 28.--I set apart (out of the few we had) a few books toward a library at Frederica. In the afternoon I walked to the fort on the other side of the island.. About five we set out homeward ; but my guide not being perfect in the way, we were soon lost in the woods. We walked on, however, as well as we could, till between nine and ten; when, being heartily tired, and thoroughly wet with dew, we laid down and slept till morning. About day break, on Sunday the 29th, we set out again, endeavouring to walk straight forward, and soon after sunrise found ourselves in the Great Savannah, near Frederica. By this good providence I was delivered from another fear,--that of lying in the woods ; which experience showed, was, to one in tolerable health, a mere * lion in the way.” Thur. Sept. 2.--I set out in a sloop, and about ten on Sunday morning came to Skidoway; which (after reading prayers, and preaching to a small congregation) I left, and came to Savannah in the evening. Mon. 13.--I began reading with Mr. Delamotte, Bishop Beveridge’s Pandéectea Canonun Conciliorum. Nothing could so effectually have 52 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. ‘[Nov. 1736. convinced us, that both particular and general councile may err, ano nave erred; and that things ordained by them as necessary to salyaion, have neither strength nor authority, unless they be taken out wu Holy Scripture. Mon. 20.--We ended (of which also I must confess I once thought more highly than I ought to think) the Apostolical Canons; so called, - as Bishop Beveridge observes, “because partly grounded upon, partly agreeing with, the traditions delivered down from the Apostles.” But he observes further, (in the 159th page of his Codex Canonum Ecclesie Primitive : and why did he not observe it in the first page of the book?) They contain the discipline used in the Church at the time when they were collected: not when the Council of Nice met; for then many parts of it were useless and obsolete.”