Wesley Corpus

{ DraREST AND MOST couRTEOUS BroTHER,] “T love you greatly, and think much of you in my journey, wishing and praying that the tender mercies of Jesus Christ the crucified, whose Lowels were moved toward you more than six thousand years ago, may be manifested to your soul: that you may taste and then see, how exceedingly the Son of God has loved you, and loves you still; and that so you may continually trust in him, and feel his life in yourself. Beware of the sin of unbelief; and if you have not conquered it yet, see that you conquer it this very day, through the blood of Jesus Christ. Delay not, I beseech you, to believe in your Jesus Christ; but so put him in mind of his promises to poor sinners, that he may not be able to refrain from doing for you, what he hath done for so many others. O how great, how inexpressible, how unexhausted is his love! Surely he is now ready to help; and nothing can offend him but our unbelief. [Believe therefore. Greet heartily, in my name, your brother Charles and Hall; and exhort one another to believe, and then to walk cicumspectly before the Lord, to fight lawfully against the devil and the world, dnd to crucify and tread all sin under our feet, as is our privilege through the grace of the Second Adam, whose life exceeds the death of the first Adam, and whose grace excels tlie corruption and condemnation of the first Adam.”] “The Lord bless you! Abide in faith, love, teaching, the communion of saints; and briefly, in all which we have in the New Testament. “Tam your unworthy Brother, “ Perer BOHLER.” ) [Southampton Fields, May 8, 1738.] Sun. 14.--I preached in the morning at St. Ann’s, Aldersgate ; and in the afternoon at the Savoy chapel, free salvation by faith in the blood of Christ. I was quickly apprized, that at St. Ann’s, likewise, I am to preach no more. So true did I find the words of a friend, wrote to my brother about this time :--