Wesley Corpus

Fri. 14.--I read with great attention the Chevalier Ramsay’s “ PhiJosophical Principles of Religion.” He undertakes to solve all the difficulties in the Christian Revelation, allowing him only a few postuJata :--1. That human souls all existed, and personally sinned, in paradise. 2. That the souls of brutes are fallen angels. 3. That pain is the only possible means whereby God himself can cure sin: and, 4. That he will, in the end, by the pains of purgatory, purify and restore all men and all devils--Amazing work this! Mon. 1'7.--I began visiting the societies in Wiltshire, and found much cause to praise God on their behalf. ‘Thur. 2'7,--I was desired by Lady F. to visit her daughter, ill of a consumption. I found much pity, both for the parent and the child, pining away in the bloom of youth. and yet not without joy; as she was already much convinced of sin, and seemed to be on the very brink of deliverance. I saw her once more on Saturday, 29, and left ner patiently waiting for God. Not long after, my brother spent some time with her in prayer, and was constrained, to the surprise of all that were present, to ask of God again and again, that he would perfect his work in her soul, and take her to himself. Almost as soon as he had done, she stretched out her hands, said, ‘* Come, Lord Jesus,” and died. Mon. October 1.--I rode to Salisbury, and the next day to a village in the New Forest, eight miles wide of Southampton ; where I preached, in the evening, to a well-meaning, serious congregation. Wednesday, 3. ---We rode to Southampton ; thence crossed over to Cowes, and reached Newport before eleven. At five in the afternoon, I went to the market place. The congregation was large, and deeply attentive. It was near the same at six in the evening ; and all seemed to drink in the exhortation, to “present themselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to