Wesley Corpus

back to London, and came pretty well to the Foundery. I consultec Dr. F. the next morning, wlio advised me to return to the Hot Well. without delay. Sun. 11.--I buried the body of Mary Doxsey, long a pattern of patience and gentleness. Monday, 12.--I set out in the machine ; and on Tuesday night (taking horses at Bath) came to Bristol. Wed. 14.--I took a lodging at the New Hot Well, where I was free both from noise and hurry ; and had an opportunity of drinking the water late in the evening, and early in the morning. But my course of physic was near being cut short the next day, by a large stone which was hung up as the weight of a jack. I applied to my head cloths dipped in cold water, which presently stopped the bleeding, and so abated the swelling, that in a few hours | found no further inconvenience. Sat. 31.--After preaching at Weaver’s Hall, one of the audience, a clergyman, ‘who had then a parish near Bridgewater, but is now, I trust,. in Abraham’s bosom,) desired to have some conversation with me, and spoke without reserve. His experience was of a peculiar kind, much resembling that of Gregory Lopez. But he soon determined to seek Christ, for the time to come, not in a desert, but in the congregation of his people. Mon. September 2.--I set out for the west. About eleven, one stopped me on the road, and earnestly desired me to turn aside, and pray with one who was near death. I found her worn away to a skeleton, and rotting in pieces with the king’s evil. But her greatest trouble seemed to be, that she was not so alive to God as formerly. After prayer, her mind was more composed; and she could trust God both with her soul and body. At noon I met the little, loving society at Shepton ; and in the evening preached at Middlesey. My work to-day was full enough for my strength.