Wesley Corpus

13. I continued thus to seek it, (though with strange indifference, dulness, and coldness, and unusually frequent relapses into sin,) till Wednesday, May 24. I think it was about five this morning, that I opened my Testament on those words, Ta weyisa nuav xou rye erolyerpolo, dsdwpryTou, wa yevnode ders xovwvos pudsws: There are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, even that ye should be partakers of the Divine nature,” 2 Pet. i, 4. Just as I went out, I opened it again on those words, “ Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” ' In the afternoon I was asked to go to St. Paul’s. The anthem was “‘ Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it! For there is mercy with thee ; therefore shalt thou be feared. O Israel, trust in the Lord : for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.” 14. In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Alders_ gate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. Abouta quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust ‘n Christ, Christ alone for salvation: and an assurance was given me, that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.