Wesley Corpus

Thur. 4.--Peter Bohler left London, in order to embark for Caro lina. O what a work hath God begun, since his coming into England! Such a one as shall never come to an end, till heaven and earth pass away. Friday and Saturday I was at Blendon. ‘They now “believed our report.” O may “the arm of the Lord” be speedily “revealed unto them !” Sun. '7.--I preached at St. Lawrence’s in the morning ; and afterward at St. Katherine Cree’s church. I was enabled to speak strong words at both; and was, therefore, the less surprised at being informed, I was not to preach any more in either of those churches. Tues. 9.--I preached at Great St. Helen’s, to a very numerous congregation, on, “ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things ?” My heart was now so enlarged, to declare the love of God, to all that were oppressed by the devil, that I did not wonder in the least, when I was afterward told, “ Sir, you must preach here no more.” Wed 10.--Mr. Stonehouse, vicar of Islington, was convinced ot «“ the truth as it is in Jesus.” From this time till Saturday, 13, I was sorrowful and very heavy; being neither able to read, nor meditate, nor sing, nor pray, nor do any thing. Yet I was a little refreshed by Peter Bohler’s letter which I insert in his own words :-- CHARISSIME ET SUAVISSIME FRATER,--Intentissimo amore te diigo, multtum tui recordans in itinere meo, optando et precando ut quamprimim viscera misericordie crucifiei Jesu Christi, tui gratia jam ante sex mille annos commota, menti tue appareant: ut gustare et tunc videre possis, quam vehementer te Filius Dei amaverit et hucusque amet, et ut sic confidere possis in eo omna tempore, vitamque ejus in te et in carne tud sentire. Cave trbi a peccato incre dulitatis, et si nondum vicisti illud, fac ut proxumo dee illud vincas, per san 68 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ May, 1738.