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ave wronged. But seeing it is not, I hope that God and you, and every one else, will accept of my willing mind. In a few hours I shall be delivered out-of this miserable world. But, glory be to God, he has given repentance and remission of sins to me, the worst of sinners: he has taken away the sting of death, and I am prepared to meet my God. Let my example encourage every sinner to forsake sin, and come unto God through Jesus Christ. As a dying man I give you this advice :--Give yourself wholly up to God. Pray to him, and never rest tll you have secured an interest in the blood of Christ. Live in his fear, and yeu (as well as I) shall die in his favour. So no more from “ Your dying husband, “ York Castle, Aug. 20. Ricuarp VaRLeEy.” Mon. 6.--I began reading to our preachers the late bishop of Cork’s excellent “ Treatise on Human Understanding ;” in most points far clearer and more judicious than Mr. Locke’s, as well as designed to 620 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [Jane 1757. advance a better cause. Fi. 10.--A person who was dying of a cancer in her breast, and deeply convinced of sin, sent a post chaise, in which I went-to her at Epsom. I left her on Satwrday. morning in strong hope she should not go hence till her eyes had seen His salvation. In my fragments of time, in the following week, I read Mr. Hanway’s accurate “ History of Shah Nadir, commonly called Kouli Khan :” a scourge of God indeed! A prodigy of valour and conduct, but an unparalleled monster of rapine and cruelty. Alexander the Great, yea, Nero, or Domitian, was an innocent in comparison of him. Sun. 26.--I buried the remains of Joseph Yarner, an Israelite indeed. The peace which filled his heart during his last hours, gave such a bloom to his very countenance, as remained after death, to the surprise of all who remembered the cloud that used to hang upon it.