Wesley Corpus

**So many as intend to be partakers of the holy communion, shall signify their names to the curate, at least some time the day before.’ This you did not do. «And if any of these--have done any wrong to his neighbours, by word or deed, so that the congregation be thereby offended, the curate -- shall advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord’s table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented.’ “Tf you offer yourself at the Lord’s table on Sunday, I will advertise you, (as I have done more than once,) wherein you have done wrong. And when you have openly declared yourself to have truly repented, I will administer to you the mysteries of God. “ August 11, 1787. Joun WESLEY.” Mr. Delamotte carrying this, Mr. Causton said, among many other warm sayings, ‘‘I am the person that am injured. The affront is offered to me; and I will espouse the cause of my niece. J am ill used; and { will have satisfaction, if it be to be had in the world.” Which way this satisfaction was to be had, I did not yet conceive. But on Friday and Saturday it began to appear :--Mr. Causton declared ’ to many persons, that “ Mr. Wesley had repelled Sophy from the holy communion, purely out of revenge; because he had made proposals of marriage to her, which she rejected, and married Mr. Williamson.” I could not but observe the gracious providence of God, in the course of the Lessons all this week. On Monday evening God spake to us in these words :--* Call to remembrance the former days, in which ye endured a great fight of afflictions: partly whilst you were made a gazing stock, both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.--Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward ; for ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise,” Heb. x, 32-36.