Wesley Corpus

Wed. 11.--I rode to Cork once more, and was very fully employed all the day. The next morning we returned to Cove, and about noon got out of the harbour. We immediately found the effects of the late storm, the sea still boiling like a pot. ‘The moon set about eight, but the northern lights abundantly supplied her place. Soon after, God smoothed the face of the deep, and gave us a small, fair wind. Fri. 13. --I read over Pascal’s “ Thoughts.” What could possibly induce such a creature as Voltaire to give such an author as this a good word; unless it was, that he once wrote a satire? And so his being a satirist might atone even for his being a Christian. Sat. 14.--About seven we sailed into Kingroad, and happily concluded our little voyage. I now rested a week at Bristol and Kingswood, preaching only morning and evening. Sun. 22.--Having heard grievous complaints of the society in Kings- ‘wood, as if there were many disorderly walkers therein, I made a particular inquiry ; and I found there was one member who drank too much in January or February last. But I could not find one who at this time lived in any outward sin whatever. When shall we be aware of the accuser of the brethren? How long shall we be ignorant of his devices ; and suffer him, by these loose, indeterminate accusations, to make our minds evil affected toward each other ? Wed. 25.--I rode to Wick, and rejoiced over a people who have run well from the beginning. ‘The person at whose house I preached, was supposed to be at the point of death. But ease or pain, life or death, was welcome to her.. She desired indeed “to depart, and to be with Christ ;” but it was with perfect resignation ; her will being swallowed up in the will of Him whom her soul loved.