Wesley Corpus

Wed. 21.--After dinner, abundance of rabble gathered near the Town Hall, having procured an engine, which they exercised on all that came in their way. So I gave them the ground, and preached at our own room in great quietness. Thur. 22.--I rode to Birmingham. A few poor wretches, I found, had occasioned fresh disturbance here. The chief was Sarah B , with whom I talked at large. Sat. 24.--She said, “I am in heaven in the spirit; but I can speak in the flesh. I am not that which appears, but that which disappears. [ always pray, and yet I never pray: for what can I pray for? I have all.” I asked, * Do not you pray for sinners?” She said, “ No; I know no sinners but one. I know but two in the world: God is one. and the devil is the other.” I asked, “ Did not Adam sin of old; and do not adulterers and murderers sin now ?”’ She replied, * No; Adam never sinned; and no man sins now: it is only the devil.” ‘ And will no man ever be damned?” ‘No man ever will.” ‘Nor the devil?” “Iam not sure; but I believe not.” ‘Do you receive the sacrament?” ‘No; I do not want it.” ‘Is the word of God your rule??? Yes; the Word made flesh; but not the letter. Iam in the Spirit.” Sun. 25.--Upon inquiry, I found these wild enthusiasts were six in all,--four men and two women. They had first run into the height of Antinomianism, and then were given up to the spirit of pride and blasphemy. We reached Bilbrook in the evening, and a little before six. on Monday, 26, Poole, near Nantwich. I was pretty much tired, but soon recovered my strength, and explained to a serious people, “I determined not to know any thing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” Tues. 2'7.--We rode to Chester, where we found the scene’ quite changed since I was here before. There is no talk of pulling down houses. The present mayor, being a man of courage as well as honesty, will suffer no riot of any kind, so that there is peace through all the city.