Wesley Corpus

[* That is:--Though we may conceal our gray hairs with a wig, this will not deceive or keep off death. Proserpine, in the mythology of the ancient Heathens, was the fabled queen of hell, who presided over the death of mankind; and according to their opinion no one could die if she, or her minister Atropos, did not cut off a lock of hair from the head.] Feb. 1756.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 595 which I had such giorious evidences of the eternal power and Godhead of my great Redeemer. [ bless God I love Mr. B as well as all mankind; but it grieves me to see people led in the high road to hell, instead of heaven; especially at a time which calls upon all to awake and prepare to meet their God.” Saturday, 17, and in the spare hours of the following days, I read over Mr. Pike’s Philosophia Sacra; [Sacred Philosophy ;] a treatise admirably well wrote, by an ingenious man, who says all that can be said for Mr. Hutchinson’s hypothesis : but it is only an hypothesis still ; much supposition, and little proof. Mon. 26.--I rode to Canterbury, and preached in the evening to such a congregation as I never saw there before ; in which were abundance of the soldiers, and not a few of their officers. Wed. 28.--I preached about noon at Dover, to a very serious but small congregation. We afterward walked up to the Castle, on the top of a mountain. It is an amazingly fine situation; and from hence we had a clear view of that vast piece of the cliff, which a few days ago divided from the rest, and fell down upon the beach. Fri. 30.--In returning to London, I read the life of the late czar, Peter the Great. Undoubtedly he was a soldier, a general, and a statesman, scarce inferior to any. But why was he called a Christian? What has Christianity to do either with deep dissimulation or savage cruelty 2