Wesley Corpus

Fri. 12.--As I was returning from Zoar, I came as well as usual to Moorfields ; but there my strength entirely failed, and such a faintness and weariness seized me, that it was with difficulty I got home. I could not but think, how happy it would be (suppose we were ready for the Bridegroom) to sink down and steal away at once, without any of the hurry and pomp of dying! Yet it is happier still to glorify God in our death, as wellas our life. About this time I received a serious, sensible letter ; the substance of which was as follows :-- “Scarce any nation passes a century without some remarkable fluctua- tion. How should it be otherwise? For how can that be perpetually stable, wherein man, full of instability, is principally concerned? It is Dec. 1755. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 593. certain, therefore, that all the quiet in a nation is ordered by divine wisdom ; as all the confusions and convulsions are permitted by divine justice. Let us view the present state of Great Britain in this light; resting assured, that all which befalls us is intended to promote our good in this world, and that which is to come. “This land is ripe for judgments. How few are there herein who even intend to please God in all they do? And all besides are subject to divine wrath. For all who live without any regard to God, are wilful sinnerg against God, and every hour liable to the stroke of his offended justice And what shall these do when visited by the sword, the plague, the famine, or the furious elements? O that they would turn to God through the Saviour of sinners! Surely then they would find mercy! Yea, and probably see the salvation of God, even in the land of the living.