Wesley Corpus

‘Several days before her death, her love was so great, that she cried, ‘T am overcome, I am overcome, I am overcome!’ And when she had scarce strength to speak, she praised God in a wonderful manner. Even when she was light headed, her talk was wholly concerning the things of God. She called to Mr. Wesley, as if he had been by her, and said, ‘O sir, how hard it is for the rich to enter into the kingdom of heaven! I am saved; but I am but just saved.’ When her fever abated, she told me she had dreamed that she was with him. And sometimes I could scarce persuade her but he had been there. ‘She after asked if I saw no more appearance of death in her face yet. When I told her there was, she begged J would indu!ge her with a looking glass; and looking earnestly into it, she said with transport, ‘I never saw myself with so much pleasure in my life.’ ie 628 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. !May, 1787. “ On Saturday morning at six she said, ‘My Saviour will come to-day and fetch his bride.’ Yet about eight she said, ‘If you had felt what I have done this morning, it would have killed you. I had lost sight of God.’ (Perhaps in the last conflict ‘with principalities and powers.’) From this time she was filled with joy, but spoke little. Her eyes were still lifted up to heaven, till her soul was released, with so inuch ease, that I did not know when she drew her last breath.” So died Judith Berresford, as it were a hundred years old, at the age of four and twenty. A little more of her life and of her spirit, may be learned from one or two of her letters :--