Wesley Corpus

Sal. 16.--I spoke to each member of the society. What havoc have the two opposite extremes, Mysticism and Antinomianism, made among this once earnest and simple people! Had it not been good for those mer not to have been born, by whom these little ones have been offended 2 !n the afternoon I rode to Dudley, where the work of God increases greatly, notwithstanding the immense scandal which has been given by those who once rejoiced in the love of God. One of these has lately killed his own child, by a blow upon the head. After preaching I talked with M. B. who has been long “a mother in Israel.” “ I was under strong convictions,” said she, “ when twelve or thirteen years old, and soon after found peace with God. But I lost it by degrees, and then contented myself with living a quiet, harmless life, till Mr. Charles Wesley came to Wednesbury, in the year 1742. Soon after this my convictions returned, though not with terror, as before, but with strong hope; and, in a little time, I recovered peace and joy in believing. This I never lost since, but for forty-eight hours ; (by speaking angrily to my child.) Not long after, Mr. Jones talked particularly with me, about the wickedness of my heart. I went home in great trouble, which April, 1757. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 625 did not cease, till one day, sitting in my house, I heard a voice say, in my inmost soul, ‘Be ye holy; for 1 am holy.’ From that hour, for a year and a quarter, (though I never lost my peace,) I did nothing but ong, and weep, and pray, for inward holiness. I was then sitting one day, Aug. 23, 1744, about eight in the morning, musing and praying as usual, when I seemed to hear a loud voice, saying at once to my heart and to my outward ears, ‘ This day shall salvation come to this house.’ I ran up stairs, and presently the power of God came upon me,.so that I shook all over like aleaf. Then a voice said, ‘ This day is salvation come to this house.’ At the instant I felt an entire change. I was full