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An hour after, we were overtook by an elderly gentleman, who said he was going to enter his son at Oxford. We asked, “ At what college?” He said he did not know: having no acquaintance there on whose recommendation he could depend. After some conversation, he expressed a deep sense of the good providence of God; and told us, he knew God had cast us in his way, in answer to his prayer. In the evening we reached Oxford, rejoicing in our having received so many fresh instances of that great truth, “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Thur. 23.--I met Peter Bohler again, who now amazed me more and more, by the account he gave of the fruits of living faith,--the hoiiness and happiness which he affirmed to attend it. The next morning I began the Greek Testament again, resolving to abide by .“ the law and the testimony ;” and being confident, that God would hereby show me, whether this doctrine was of God. Sun. 26.--]J preached at Whitam, on “ the new creature,” and went m the evening to a society in Oxford, where, (as my manne then was April, 1738. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 65 at all societies,) after using a collect or two and the Lord’s Prayer, I expounded a chapter in the New Testament, and concluded with three or four more collects and a psalm. Mon. 27.--Mr. Kinchin went with me to the Castle, where, after reading prayers, and preaching on, “ It is appointed unto men once to die,” we prayed with the condemned man, first in several forms of prayer, and then in such words as were given us in that hour. He kneeled down in much heaviness and confusion, having “ no rest in” his “ bones, by reason of” his “sins.” After a space he rose up, and eagerly said, “‘ 1 am now ready to die. I know Christ has taken away my sins ; oad there is no more condemnation for me.” The same composed cheerfulness he showed, when he was carried to execution: and in his last moments he was the same, enjoying a perfect pee in cove fidence that he was “accepted in the Beloved.”